Construction zone

Well Jared started construction on the new bedroom Wednesday night for Grayson and Kaeden. Of course things have not gone as quickly as he had planned! His plan was to have it ready to be painted by mid this week. Well as of right now only half the sheet rock is up, so still needs to be taped and textured. Everything in my house is covered in dust and as always there were a few issues we now have to fix. First is the floors, we had laminate installed several months ago and where Jared took a partial wall down there is now a big long space with no flooring....also that same wall was really attached to the ceiling. He had to hack a few holes in the ceiling to get the top board off. Also my new dryer that I just bought last week because my fancy one and half year old steam dryer dies for the fourth time is taking two sometimes three cycles to dry a load of clothes, I just cant seem to win in the laundry department. At least I have a dryer!!! That stupid steam dryer has been dead more then it was working since July I just don't know how I am going to keep on top of laundry for 7 people when every load I dry takes at least two cycles to dry...sigh. On Wednesday night we also ended our face book auction and the total bids were just over $500!!! We also had a guy Jared used to work with bid on Grayson's middle naming rights for $275!!! And a lady I used to work with years ago gave us a check for $250!!! We are getting closer to our goal but still have a long way to go until we reach our goal. We are still hoping to travel in February or March and are guesstimating that we still need about $15,500 for all the costs. We still need airfare for us and the kids, the fees for the adoption, rent for an apartment in the country, food while we are there, travel in the country, the kids visas, passports and medical exams in the country and other misc stuff like gifts for the other kids in the orphanages. This time of year just like everyone else pretty much is one of our busiest. This year I am in one of my best friends wedding the first Saturday in December, the next weekend is Jared's company Christmas party, the Friday before the party I am taking donations to the adoption agency we used for Kaeden's adoption for their birth moms' Christmas party and helping to set up for that, the following weekend we are driving to Canadian to go to one of Jared's best friends weddings and in between all that normal stuff, stuff for Ashlyn's school and both Jared and I's birthdays! Fun, fun, fun:) Hopefully after the Holidays are over we can do some more fundraisers to help offset our costs. I'm hoping to have another yard sale in late January maybe early February and if we have time and the weather warms up another car wash! We are looking for more fundraising ideas so if you have any please let us know!!!