Cast 14 and lots of blessings!

Sasha's feet are looking so good.! She has two more casts and then we are done. Her dr said she will need more in the future before surgeries but for now....almost all done! We were blessed with tickets this weekend for the movie Epic and also Shriners circus. All this coincides with Judah's first birthday, he will be 8 but he has never had a birthday celebration of any kind. So he thinks all of this is for his birthday. He's happy so who am I to burst his bubble. We ask went to an amazing park yesterday with a huge slide you ride down on burlap sacks! After about the 20th time we convinced Sasha to ride on my lap. She Loved it! Daniel loved it and we....aka me...were all exhausted . I'm still obsessed with bed bugs and can't remember the last conversation I had that the subject didn't come up :(  another reason I'm looking forward to the new Earth!

More bugs...can you believe it?

Judah was getting bitten so we had told the manager where we are staying and they brought in the dogs. Turns out we have bed bugs in our room! Did we bring them with us? I can't imagine how. We were crazy careful. Did everything we were supposed to plus. Barely brought anything with us and our car checked out clean from the dogs. But, out of four rooms that showed bed bug activity one was ours and another was the wall next to ours. I hate these horrible things. So the wonderful place we are staying just shelled out 600.00 a room to freeze the bugs and eggs. The cost of getting rid of these things is extremely overpriced. But, what can you do? It wasn't the first time for them and it won't be the last. We didn't cause all the rooms to have bugs even if we did cause them in our room and quite possibly this is where we got them in the first place. However, I feel horrible about the whole thing. I'm not really wanting to name where we are staying for their privacy based on this bed bug thing but, if you know then remember them in your donations. They are trying to help families like us and the cost of keeping their rooms bug free comes out of money they need to do other things. Meanwhile Jim is setting traps in our home to see if we do still have them...ugh.

Skipped one....number 13

I tried to write last week...really I did. I never could get past the title so I never finished. Sasha did cast 13 today and gets measured for braces on Friday! We get released next week and are done casting after next Friday....woo hoo! For now that is. She will need some tweaking before and after her surgeries but after next Friday we get a huge break. We will travel back in about a month to get her braces and then we wait. Probably at least a year is what we've been told before he has surgery dates available. That means she has to wait to walk but I know she really needs the break. We all need to just enjoy being a family for awhile. No new adoptions...no being apart for medical treatments...and we have lots of other things we can be doing to build muscle so that when the time comes she has the strength to walk. I miss my husband, my two older boys, my house , my friends and my everyday life. Home sounds so good to all of us. How blessed we are that God has given us such a great life to miss when we are away. And wonderful new friends we have met here in Philadelphia. God is good ...all the time!

On the road again...cast 11

We are back in Philadelphia. After two crazy weeks at home. We had our house sprayed and then cooked...supposedly the cooking is 100 percent effective at killing those nasty bed bugs...however....just in case....We bought every preventative measure we could think of to keep them out of our beds and lives. We also....I kid you not....traveled with all our clothes in black garbage bags....yep right through the front door of the Marriot we stayed at. Checked the room out like crazy and only opened the bags to change clothes....clothes that came straight from my dryer into the bags. I was looking at all the other people checking in with their cute luggage wondering why us...oh well there are worse things to deal with. In case your wondering we used the bags to not only protect ourselves but also to make sure we weren't carrying any with us either. We are not officially considered bug free until we go at least three weeks with none showing up in the traps. Theoretically even after that we could still have one pregnant female have escaped and the whole process would start over again....sooo...I signed a contract with my local pest control to come out every other month.....dust my house with a mix of cancer causing toxins that have a long life bed bug killing capacity.....and hopefully one day relax a bit over my recent bed bug paranoia. I know way more about bed bugs then anyone should ever know.

Sasha went for cast 11 on Monday and she is now in short casts...yippee! Her earlier casts came up about mid thigh. These are a little below her knees. Her feet are where her doctor wants them to be and now he is working on her ankles. So we will be hanging out here the next few weeks. I must admit after the over the top stress I had at home it's nice to have some down time.

On hold

I sat down this morning and wrote a long post. Toward the end my iPad locked up. So until we get all the clean up done for and from this bed bug business my posting is on hold. Hopefully I'll be back soon :)

Bugged!!

We brought home some extra guests home with us....bed bugs! Yuk! The only place I can guess we picked them up was the hotel on the way home. I always check....but....I was exhausted..."it was late.....and Sasha was hurting......so I didn't. I know we didn't have them before since I haven't ever had the bites before.....:(  a few days home and I start getting bites....we called the exterminator and although he couldn't find any proof of them at first we did see two actual bugs.....double yuk! He said we must have just gotten them so back to my hotel theory. So 1200 plus dollars and we are guaranteed to be bug free .....but I have some advice regarding the yucky critters I will post this weekend. For now back to throwing away everything that truly doesn't get used. They spray and heat but I don't want any hidden eggs to bring these nasty things back into my life. I must admit I will probably never miss all that stuff and my bedroom looks much cleaner......oh hint number one...Do Not store things under your bed!! Yep that's all in the landfill now.

We are home!

Sasha is doing better and we are home for a two week reprieve from Philadelphia. Hoping to post ome pics soon!