Shelton Shenanigans

Anyone who has ever had a kindergartener knows what it’s like to be asked so many questions that your head hurts!   Sometimes our little guy wears me out with his constant queries, and sometimes he leaves me in awe of the way his little mind works.   The most recent mind boggler was posed to Steve.   “Who is better at Star Wars: Luke Skywalker or Isaiah Thomas?”   (In what universe does this question even make sense?   Would anyone out there like to tackle this question for me?   Anyone?   Anyone? Sometimes I have to table his questions for when Daddy gets home.   Sometimes I astound him with my own brilliance (okay, not really), and sometimes we have to add them to an ever-growing list of unanswerables, or things to ask God some day in Heaven.   That list includes things like, “Why did God make mosquitoes,” and “Why does vanilla smell so good and taste so terrible? To this list I would like to add, “When is the right time to do ano...

Just keep swimming! We’ve crossed over the five-year mark in our adoption adventure.   It’s been so long, in fact, that I often wonder if people think we’ve given up, or if they’ve forgotten about us.   And then I got the answer to that question this summer when someone actually asked me, “weren’t you guys thinking about adopting one time?”   Yes, we were.   In fact, we still are.   It’s just taking a long, long time. We’re wrapping up our second home study update now.   This is necessary to keep our fingerprints current with Immigration while we continue to wait in line.   We will likely need to do this one more time, possibly twice, before this “waiting for referral” chapter of our story ends.   The most recent estimate from our adoption agency is that we can hope for a referral in January of 2019, but it could easily be longer than that.   Until then, we keep waiting, praying for a miracle, and hoping that things will suddenly sp...