DIS/DISUnplugged/Dreams December Event Info – DISapalooza (continued)

[scarlett873]

I didn't see the pics, can you put them here?

Go to my profile and look at my pics...I've been tagging them as I find them...

 

[kimisabella]

Go to my profile and look at my pics...I've been tagging them as I find them...

OK - thanks!

 

[katscradle]

8 weeks,
14 hours,
50 minutes
until the DIS-A-Palooza Toy Story Midway Mania Block Party!!!!!!






Why is it on days that you can sleep in, you still wake up before the rooster, as if it was a day to go into work?

I am so excited, I just can't hide it!

 

[katscradle]

Good morning!!!

It is way too up early to be awake on a Saturday!!!

But it's for a good cause! I am off to go walk with Ferris and friends!!! Go Ferris!!

Pics to come later today or tomorrow!! Should be a fun and COOL day!! Hight of 76!!

Have fun at the walk Shelly!

 

[wildfan1473]

We're back!

A new thread! And it's 63 pages I'm not even going to bother trying to get caught up, I'm sure if I missed something important, like the sign up, someone will let me know

Have lots of unpacking to do, and grocery shopping, and organize popcorn sales after church tomorrow, and get a trip report written in the words of DS5, so I'll stop back later.

Have a great weekend!

 

[Renysmom]

We're back!

Welcome Home. Can't wait to hear all about your trip

 

[AnneR]

We're back!

A new thread! And it's 63 pages I'm not even going to bother trying to get caught up, I'm sure if I missed something important, like the sign up, someone will let me know

Have lots of unpacking to do, and grocery shopping, and organize popcorn sales after church tomorrow, and get a trip report written in the words of DS5, so I'll stop back later.

Have a great weekend!

Jennifer - Did you book with DU? If you did, you should have email with instructions to sign up. We are still waiting for sign ups to be announced for the rest of the group.

 

[kathrna]

We're back!

A new thread! And it's 63 pages I'm not even going to bother trying to get caught up, I'm sure if I missed something important, like the sign up, someone will let me know

Have lots of unpacking to do, and grocery shopping, and organize popcorn sales after church tomorrow, and get a trip report written in the words of DS5, so I'll stop back later.

Have a great weekend!

YAY! You're back! Boo to be back! Welcome back to the real world!

Emails DID go out for DU clients for sign ups. So if you are a DU client, go through your mail. Otherwise, the open sign ups are soon to come.

Um, go to the top of page 63 and click on Mike's banner. Hopefully you are in time to not PASS on the opportunity. I hope that you took lots of PHOTOS on your most recent trip!

Other than that, it's all banter.

 

[wildfan1473]

Yes...it's in regards to our adoption. When we began the process, families were waiting maybe a year before getting their referrals. As you can see, we have been waiting (as far as China's concerned) for 2 1/2 years now. And no end in sight. No speed ups...nothing. They are about a year behind us in referrals, so it sounds optimistic, but they really only match families at a pace of about 3-6 days per month. When you have families logged in just about every day of the month, it takes China an ETERNITY to get through one month of referrals. If they continue at the pace they've been going at, we could be waiting another 5 years. It just sucks...and there's nothing we can do about it except pull our paperwork and I'm not ready to do that yet. We've looked into other programs, but we don't qualify (too many divorces between the two of us).

Not only is the waiting agony, but then we have to keep our papers updated here with our homestudy. Just about yearly...homestudy updates are $400...fingerprinting is $160 (every 12-16 months)...I-600a (immigration-related...allows us to bring her back into the U.S.) is $700 now and that's every 18 months. We get one free renewal with the fingerprinting and I-600a paperwork, but we've used that so this time we pay for it, but next renewal is free. And I sincerely hope that we won't have to pay for this again after that...

Please don't mis-read this...I am very excited about our adoption plans...it's just so hard to wait...I'm not getting any younger and I'm afraid that by the time we get a referral, I'll be 80. By the time we get this referral, we will have probably aged out of the program, so Dorissa will be an only child.

Sorry guys...I just have these pity me days with this every now and then. Thanks for the shoulders...

I stumbled on this briefly while we were gone, and I just wanted to jump in and give you a big cyber hug . I've been there, and there is nothing more to say other than it absolutely, positively, unequivocably sucks. People can tell you to keep yourself busy, enjoy the time you and DH have together without kids, everything happens for a reason (which I truly believe, but it was painful to hear it then), but in the end - it just plain sucks.

I went through the worst depression when we thought we would never see our boys again, then, boom, out of nowhere, 10 months after we met them (we were supposed to return 4-6 weeks later for court), we had 3 days to get our ducks in a row and get to Russia (and I had just had back surgery 6 weeks prior). In the meantime, we had to get new medical releases every 8 weeks on top of all the immigration paperwork. Just before we went to get the boys (like, literally that month), Russian officials decided they then wanted the medical releases signed by 8 different specialists rather than your 1 family physician, as well as a psychological evaluation. It was a mess, to say the least. Turned out, we never even used any of the new paperwork we had to keep re-submitting since we had been there 10 months prior.

Scream, cry, laugh, throw things - do whatever you need to do. We're here for you.

Your day will come, and when it does, it WILL all be worth it.

 

[Madi100]

Went to a soccer game this afternoon. Emilie's soccer game. Emilie is 8. The police were there. They actually walked out onto the field and stopped the game. At half time a little girl had falled and was "hurt" (she fell down.) He parents were upset that ref didn't call a foul before the half. They were yelling and the ref threatened to throw them out. Their response, "I don't care. Call the game fair." From my experience with soccer games, you're always going to have calls that are missed, but it goes both ways. So, the parents got kicked out, but the mom wanted to go on the field. The ref told her she couldn't go on the field and the mom said she could to check on her daughter. Ref told her to walk around the field. So, the mom starts to go on the field and the ref stands in front of her. The mom pushed a little, the ref pushed back (with no arms). Finally the ref let her go. But the parents were still supposed to leave. When there was about 5 minutes left of the game the police showed up and stopped the game. The mom called the police and said she assaulted the parent. She claims the mom punched her in the chest and pushed her.

Good example for your 8 year old.

 

[chirurgeon]

Went to a soccer game this afternoon. Emilie's soccer game. Emilie is 8. The police were there. They actually walked out onto the field and stopped the game. At half time a little girl had falled and was "hurt" (she fell down.) He parents were upset that ref didn't call a foul before the half. They were yelling and the ref threatened to throw them out. Their response, "I don't care. Call the game fair." From my experience with soccer games, you're always going to have calls that are missed, but it goes both ways. So, the parents got kicked out, but the mom wanted to go on the field. The ref told her she couldn't go on the field and the mom said she could to check on her daughter. Ref told her to walk around the field. So, the mom starts to go on the field and the ref stands in front of her. The mom pushed a little, the ref pushed back (with no arms). Finally the ref let her go. But the parents were still supposed to leave. When there was about 5 minutes left of the game the police showed up and stopped the game. The mom called the police and said she assaulted the parent. She claims the mom punched her in the chest and pushed her.

Good example for your 8 year old.

OMG!!!!! What is with some people? They are just nuts. This is what the police need to be involved in, wacky parents.

Kim

 

[jen3003]

Went to a soccer game this afternoon. Emilie's soccer game. Emilie is 8. The police were there. They actually walked out onto the field and stopped the game. At half time a little girl had falled and was "hurt" (she fell down.) He parents were upset that ref didn't call a foul before the half. They were yelling and the ref threatened to throw them out. Their response, "I don't care. Call the game fair." From my experience with soccer games, you're always going to have calls that are missed, but it goes both ways. So, the parents got kicked out, but the mom wanted to go on the field. The ref told her she couldn't go on the field and the mom said she could to check on her daughter. Ref told her to walk around the field. So, the mom starts to go on the field and the ref stands in front of her. The mom pushed a little, the ref pushed back (with no arms). Finally the ref let her go. But the parents were still supposed to leave. When there was about 5 minutes left of the game the police showed up and stopped the game. The mom called the police and said she assaulted the parent. She claims the mom punched her in the chest and pushed her.

Good example for your 8 year old.

I feel sorry for the little girl.

It's so sad what extremes people will go to nowadays, what happened to life like it used to be years ago?

This is what our kids have to look forward to in the future.

 

[Annette_VA]

Tonya & I are now officially signed up for the TSM meet!

 

[katscradle]

Went to a soccer game this afternoon. Emilie's soccer game. Emilie is 8. The police were there. They actually walked out onto the field and stopped the game. At half time a little girl had falled and was "hurt" (she fell down.) He parents were upset that ref didn't call a foul before the half. They were yelling and the ref threatened to throw them out. Their response, "I don't care. Call the game fair." From my experience with soccer games, you're always going to have calls that are missed, but it goes both ways. So, the parents got kicked out, but the mom wanted to go on the field. The ref told her she couldn't go on the field and the mom said she could to check on her daughter. Ref told her to walk around the field. So, the mom starts to go on the field and the ref stands in front of her. The mom pushed a little, the ref pushed back (with no arms). Finally the ref let her go. But the parents were still supposed to leave. When there was about 5 minutes left of the game the police showed up and stopped the game. The mom called the police and said she assaulted the parent. She claims the mom punched her in the chest and pushed her.

Good example for your 8 year old.

This is a wonderful example for children! NOT!!!!!
Let's see how fast the police respond the next time that woman calls them.
The police don't like this anymore than most normal people do.

 

[Annette_VA]

Went to a soccer game this afternoon. Emilie's soccer game. Emilie is 8. The police were there. They actually walked out onto the field and stopped the game. At half time a little girl had falled and was "hurt" (she fell down.) He parents were upset that ref didn't call a foul before the half. They were yelling and the ref threatened to throw them out. Their response, "I don't care. Call the game fair." From my experience with soccer games, you're always going to have calls that are missed, but it goes both ways. So, the parents got kicked out, but the mom wanted to go on the field. The ref told her she couldn't go on the field and the mom said she could to check on her daughter. Ref told her to walk around the field. So, the mom starts to go on the field and the ref stands in front of her. The mom pushed a little, the ref pushed back (with no arms). Finally the ref let her go. But the parents were still supposed to leave. When there was about 5 minutes left of the game the police showed up and stopped the game. The mom called the police and said she assaulted the parent. She claims the mom punched her in the chest and pushed her.

Good example for your 8 year old.

Wow, that's awful! Some people get way too worked up over kids sports

 

[Tonya2426]

Tonya & I are now officially signed up for the TSM meet!

 

[katscradle]

I feel for Nicole having to try and explain this to her daughter.

On another topic I am off to the gym again.
Be back in about 3-4 hours.

 

[katscradle]

Wow, that's awful! Some people get way too worked up over kids sports

Congrats to both of you!

 

[Dodie]

I am so IMPATIENT to be able to sign up for the activities as a non-DU client (for THIS particular trip). I'm excited for those of you who are "in," but can't wait to be able to say that Kathy (kab407) and I are "in" too.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

Tonya & I are now officially signed up for the TSM meet!