time warp

Ok.. well.. I hadn't realized it had been quite so long... but then.. life gets weird..
a LOT has changed in the past year and a half.. other then even more computer issues which played havoc with my bookmarks and part of why i simply forgot about the blog... oops..
All of our foster kiddos have left our house.. MK and R left at the end of September 2016 and went to another foster placement. Sadly, there were some on going issues and concerns that had developed in the time they had been back with their mom between their placements with us that we were not in a position to properly cope with and they had to be moved for safety concerns.. we tried very hard and likely longer then we should have, but we were just no longer the place they needed to be. Then E left us last November to go back to her mom's care. They seem to be doing well. We kept in touch and helped out once in a while for the first 6 months or so. It has been very hard having them all leave. I'm heart broken and missing them, but that is the nature of foster care..
We renewed our foster license again. Though this may well be the last time unless we get lucky with a placement. We've asked to be pre-adoptive only, so we may just linger and wait.. so there may not be a whole lot of activity at all here..
This summer saw B2 move back home for a month after breaking up with her fiancee.. She moved in with Boober (family nickname for her 1.5 yr old daughter..) and her big ole doofus of a dog at the start of July and then moved back out at the end of July and took her younger sister, M, with her.. M will be 19 in a month and we are really hoping that this move will help her get involved in her life.. lol.. she's been dragged along to help provide child care, but will also mean that she will need to find employment and socialize at least a wee bit. We're hoping it will be good for her..
So I'm doing a lot of cleaning out around the house, we're doing some minor remodels and repairs that always need doing. We're repainting the house, finally... T has spent 12 years saying he was going to repaint it because he hated living in a pink house... but things always happened and it just didn't get done... this year.. it's getting done.. we've actually got the front and 2 short sides of the house done, just have the back side to finish off.. when he's home and it's not raining...  we've had a fair bit of rain this summer, so it's rather impressive that we've got that much done..  also replaced the septic system this year.. always fun, that... lol...