Over the weekend we got snow! NOOO!!! I know, I know it was going to happen.

I just got tasked to make 12 hats for Christmas. I like creating but I am tired of making. Lol!

On the adoption front. We are going to talk to Bethany Christian Services. I have never heard of them before but one of Jeff’s co-workers just got their child from there. We looked at them and read all their stuff from their website. Going to check them out soon. I hope during December here.

I don’t know really. I think at this point in my life I don’t really want to physically have a baby. However my mom wants us to pursue the whole fertility thing. I would prefer to adopt a child instead. I am still mystified that my mom didn’t like the idea of us adopting. It’s still another grandchild regardless. And whatever child we get they will be ours regardless.

What’s insane is how much adoption costs! You can spend and spend thousands and thousands of dollars for a child. It’s so crazy! Just to do the home study is $1500. If you don’t get a child that year, years after it is $500. Wow! But still worth it. I’ll keep you updated on that.

Nothing really else just making and making Christmas presents.

I am setting a big goal for myself. I am going to read 50 books. Why? Because I miss reading. I used to love to read but now I always say I am going to read then I don’t. I want to finish 50 books by next December. The books do not have to famous books either and they do have to books I have never read before.

50.

I mostly got this book because it had police dogs in it and looked interesting .It wasn’t. It had two stories in one book. Both stories were boring and generic. Not a great book to start out with.

49.

This book was great expect the ending. It was very action packed! I want to read more stories by this author. The ending gave me the rolling eyes effect. Like whatever.  I know these are romantic story stories but please that is not how it works in real life. I wish she would have gone more real life for the romantic part.

I got some more of these type of books because they are so cheap at about 5 dollars a piece. Something about holding an actual book, I like. I know old fashion I suppose.

I have been a creating fool! I am almost done with all three mermaids. Then I have to make four hats maybe more, haven’t decided yet.

Tex the other day wasn’t helping me clean the office. Lol! But he found the window!

What is this? Tex and Scotty together?!

We have been having a terrible time of Tex being too rowdy with Scotty. Biting his face which Tex bit a chuck out of. Tex bites Scotty’s ears and gets little owies on them. Our training instructor says that Scotty will eventually fight back but when was the question. Tex was literally hurting Scotty. So…

I don’t like the idea of the shock collar but we got one anyway. I shocked myself and will NEVER shock Tex. However it does beep and vibrate. We did beep then vibrate once so he knows this isn’t okay. So far only beep has him stopping. We have never shocked him and never will but the beep is nice. It funny Tex thinks the beeping is in the floor. Like IN the floor! LOL! Anyways Tex was sleeping on top of Scotty mostly but not biting him. We were worried that Tex was going to scratch out Scotty’s eyes or even bite near them because how he was trying to play with Scotty. This way we have a peaceful Scotty who is trying not to be scared of Tex which he was and still is a bit. I think eventually they will live peaceful together. And that is what we will use the collar for and that is it. All other behavioral things is the word NO! We just want Scotty and Tex to get along. We were separating them and that sucked. I felt bad for Scotty who couldn’t be with us because of Tex being so aggressive with him. We understand that Tex is a puppy but that isn’t right to actually cause harm to Scotty.

We had Tex out of his play area from the time Jeff got home till 9. That is Tex’s bedtime. He was so worn out for being out and not taking a nap that he slept all of last night! He has never done that. It’s funny when you see the personality. I ask him if he wants to go potty around 11 at night but last night he gave me attitude and went back to sleep. He makes this whining noise like “Hey trying to sleep here.” Then sticks out his tongue, goes back to bed. He is so silly!

The biting has stopped, mostly. Once in a while he does nip and he has bitten me during play. I tell him owie! Then I get kisses for sorry. He still has a way in the training but he is trying, so that is something. He is starting to show his personality more which is cool to see. Oh and I am for sure his mom and he likes me more than Jeff. LOL! He always wants to sit on my feet and lay near me more than Jeff and I get a ton of kisses! Which is a huge switch from when we got him.

Adopting has been sort of a strange process. There are some services that actually discourage adopting. I thought that was strange. We talked to someone who does Foster Care in our town and they are the ones who discourage it. I thought that was strange because there has to be kids who need adopting even in our town. We also tried a service in Appleton that said they are so full of applicants that will would be 2 year wait or longer. In fact they said they were doing their applicants like a lottery because they have so many. That didn’t sound promising to me.  Also I can’t wait that long, it was really the longer part that got me. So we keep going and looking to see what other services their are.

I did this diamond painting in 2 weeks! Take a pic later in a frame.

For Halloween I created a boomaid which is a mermaid. LOL! I needed to make a prototype so I can make some mermaids for Christmas. It turned out great!

Jeff asked me to do a diamond painting.

LOL nice imagine right. However it’s cool and it’s going to take me some time to do this one. I can’t wait to see it finished.

Puppy class wasn’t so good. Tex wouldn’t listen at all. But the instructor says she can tell when people practice and when they do not. So she said that all puppies have those days just like people and she thinks Tex will get. Just have to keep going on the training.

I got Red Dead Redemption 2! It’s so fun! I think this is better than the first. Having fun robbing and killing people. LOL! Also bonding with my horse. Had a glitch already had a elongated horse. It’s neck was so stretch for some time. I think those kind of glitches are funny!

I voted! I think voting is important. This time I voted a little more Democratic. Since I am an Independent I can choose the person not the party. I felt like those people I voted for would do a good job. I did vote for some Republicans as well. All the people I voted for got in. I am very happy with this election.