Has it been almost 3 weeks?

It seems like we have been working on moving the girls for EVER now!  Believe it or not, they are still coming.  I met their current provider this week and took the girls out to dinner.  Their current provider is a very sweet woman who deserves a medal or some sort of award for her longevity with the Department of Such Matters.  She is SEVENTY FOUR (!!!) and has been fostering since 1983.  She currently has my two girls and two of her grandchildren living with her.  Needless to say, she is worn out.  Heck, I'm worn out and I don't even have the kids here yet!

We went out to dinner and then stopped at the store to try on clothes.  They LOVE shopping.  I don't recall being that excited about trying on clothes until I was in high school.  And I still don't love trying on clothes now.  In fact, I am notorious for just holding them up to me and eyeballing it.  Therefore I return a lot of clothing that doesn't fit when I get it home.  I think they would have tried on clothes until the store closed if I would have let them.

The plan at the moment is to have the girls here for a weekend visit with me and then move them next Friday.  We were going to move them this Friday, but my childcare option (Boys & Girls Club) fell through.  Apparently they are closed for 30 days until school starts back up.  Really?  CLOSED???  I can't imagine what the parents who were using them as inexpensive child care are doing with their kiddos for that month.

I need to finish getting their room ready tonight and go grocery shopping as the fridge looks like I have been living the single life. I feel compelled to feed them more nutritional meals than I make for myself. (What?  Popcorn and cold cereal are TOTALLY nutritious meals! 5-6 days a week.)

I got the girls enrolled in school on Monday.  They were going to attend the school they went to (sometimes) last year, but the caseworker decided that since they attended less than half (!) the year last year, I could enroll them at the school down the street.  I am very thankful for this as it was going to be a 30+ minute drive each way to get them to their old school.  I would have done it if they were really attached there, but I'm so glad I don't have to.  Besides, there wasn't any after school care at their old school and I have the option of Campfire at this one.  I won't have to use it very often, but I may need them a couple days a week when I have to work until 6pm.

Hopefully I will have some pictures to post after this weekend!  Of course you know that any pictures I post here will have their faces cropped out because of privacy.  Headless children.  I'll take two!