Camping

I love Camping!  I have loved camping since I can remember.  My family has always camped every holiday and all summer.  When I got married,Jeff Scott loved to camp just as much as I do.  We started off camping in a tent, worked are way up to a tent trailer and now we have a travel trailer that we love.  It was taken us to so many fun places and has given us the opportunity to see a lot of the US. My favorite things about camping is to be in the beautiful surroundings preferably around water. I love to sit around the camp fire and roast marshmallows, sing camp songs, play cards and board games until late, play ladder ball, croquet, yard dart and what ever game we can find to play outside. Last but not least making homemade ice cream.  We just came home from our annual trip to Fairhaven, NY camping for Labor Day.  The last end of the summer hurrah before the kids go back to school. Hopefully we can make a couple more camping trips before the end of the season and it gets too cold.  It bring my family close and we enjoy spending this time together. Yes I love camping....

 

 

 

Foster Parent Picnic

This last Saturday was our Foster Family Picnic.  It was so much fun to see other families and their foster kids.  It was on beautiful Canandaiqua Lake and we had a great time.  We meet one of MiaBella's half siblings and the foster family she lives with.  I love being a foster mom and having these sweet children in our home.  What a blessing they are.

Evening Cruise down the Erie Canal

Tonight we decided to take my parents on a evening cruise on the Erie Canal.  We had so much fun and it was a beautiful evening.  We meet a really fun young couple who we chatted with for quite awhile.  The cruise went to the locks and it was so fun to see the water rise and lower to enter the next part of the canal.  We try to do fun things around the area we live because we never know how long we are going to be there.  So we can check another box off things to do around Rochester, New York.

Court for the Boys

Went to court today for the boys that I have had in my care for 2 years.  I have been so uneasy about it and not been able to sleep.  They were going to decide if their mother gets them back or not.  Of course she has not finished any of her treatments she has suppose to do and it's been 2 years.  I don't want to rant how screwed up the system is but I think they should considered the rights of the children and not just the parents.  They postponed the court until next month so cross your fingers that they will start the proceedings to terminate there rights.  We love these boys so much and count even imagine our lives without them.

This is our sweet little MiaBella that has been in our home since May of last year.  We are in the process of adopting her and we are so excited she will finally be ours. We are hoping it will be finalized before the end of the year.  She is such a joy to us and we can't think of our lives without her.  She is quite the little dancer and singer, loves her older sisters but can hang with the boys. Wish us luck....

Well here I go starting my new blog.  I wanted to share with others about being a Mother of 7 especially that I am of mother of three small children in my later 40's. Cooking clean and healthy, trying to exercise in all this madness. Crafting and decorating on a dime which is my passion.  Hope you enjoy!