Hey Al Gore, are you listening????

First, I talked to PBJ's foster family last night. She had an appointment earlier in the week with the neurologist and he said she is 'a miracle of the brain'. He wants them to work with her legs more so he asked them to get a walker for her and have her use it some everyday. They are so good about helping her and caring for her. Although I wish she was here and I was caring for her it helps me to know she is in a great home.

I got Ahren's DNA results in the mail. 99.99% match. Wahoo! In the packet they send a photo of him with his birthmother. In it, he appears to be wiggling trying to get off her lap. She has her arms around him and has her head lowered down by his. Her eyes look lost and flat, no emotion. I cannot imagine what she was feeling. I know how much I ache missing him, but for her it would be almost a physical ache in addition to the heartache. Her huge loss is our gain and I feel a mixture of sadness, guilt and awe for her and her choice. All I can promise is that we will love him with all our hearts and souls, give him every advantage we can, and always tell him what a sacrifice his birthmother made so that he would have a better life.

It has finally turned cold here (for Texas) and we have been in the upper 30's and lower 40's since Wednesday night. That is when we discovered that the furnace (in our brand-new home) does not work. The fan comes on but no heat. Yikes! Luckily we learned that our house is very well insulated. The coldest it got inside was 66 degrees. We don't have a fireplace so we couldn't use that to heat the house. Instead, we baked a lot! We turned the 1-day feast into a 4-day glutton-fest. Of course this was all done in the name of heat-generation and energy conservation. If we needed to turn the ovens on to create heat then we needed to justify it by having something IN the oven. Right?

Speaking of energy conservation and such, I need to figure out how to calculate our eco-footprint or whatever it's called. I spent the better half of Friday planting 24 saplings and 56 strawberry plants and that got me to thinking. Each plant we add to our property should be lowering our overall impact on the ecosystem. At some point, we should be in the positive for eco-credits, creating more than we are using. And what are surplus eco-credits good for? Selling to politicians who want to represent themselves as credit-neutral, that's what! Hey Al Gore, are you listening? I have eco-credits for sale. Come and get'em! Just bring your checkbook and 3 forms of ID. I don't take credit and I don't take crap.