Crazy week almost over

Revised schedule, getting shorter all the time!!!  Not that you guys need to know it, but it feels good to have it all typed out.  And it feels really good to be busy!  The last three days have taken a toll on my legs, but tomorrow is CPR/first aid training so today I am pretty much not moving, so I can handle the physical part of the training like getting on the floor to resuscitate a dummy.

I had to get a physical yesterday for licensing, and (TMI?  Nah) I didn't have to get a pelvic OR have blood drawn.  SCORE!


4/12 - CPR/First Aid training
4/13 - Physical therapy, TB test
4/17 - Physical therapy, TB test check
-Sometime next week: - "Field Experience" as part of training
4/21 - Cats to vet, physical therapy
4/22 - CORE training
4/23 - CORE training
4/24 - Physical therapy (will probably cancel this appointment because I'll be tired from training)
4/28 - Physical therapy


As far as other "To-Dos": 

1. We have the bunk beds set up and all the bedding, but I need to wash the bedding and make the beds.

2. I ordered a fire ladder which should be here next week.

3. We have locks for the cupboards with alcohol and medications, and Joe needs to install them.

4. I have my "medication log"almost ready to go, just need to triple hole punch the sheets and put them in a binder...but the stuff is upstairs and it's not worth a whole trip upstairs!  (Every medication administered to child, even a vitamin, has to be logged with the time the med was given.)

5. We do need to find a dresser for the bedroom.

Just to be clear, finishing these things won't license us, but it will complete our portion of what to do.  After that, it's up to our licensor and the state to do their part.  Our licensor is awesome though - she said she could expedite our application because we are so motivated!

But some things take time, like getting my doctors to send in medical reports, and getting the results from the fingerprinting we did yesterday.  But we will have jumped through every hoop!!!!  I just can't believe this is happening so fast. 

To be honest, it would be convenient if we didn't get kids till after July, because we're going to Spain for two weeks.  We couldn't take any kids with us because 1) we'd technically be fostering them before the adoption process goes through, 2) you can't take foster kids out of the country (you can't even take them out of state without a lot of red tape), and 3) there wouldn't be time to get them passports.  So it would be like, "Welcome to your new family, now go and stay with someone else for two weeks."  And they'd ahve to stay with another licensed foster family so it would be "respite care" and we'd be sending them to stay with people we don't even know.

Anyway, clearly I am having trouble stopping myself from rambling, so I'll end this now!