Filipino Spaghetti and other random thoughts...

I've had some questions on Filipino spaghetti. While American spaghetti is rich and tomatoey (is that a word?), Filipino spaghetti is sweeter. Just like spaghetti here, there are different variations in the Philippines, too. W added sweetened condensed milk to hers. My Filipino co-worker says the banana ketchup makes it sweeter. At the orphanage, the spaghetti we were served was baked and had little hot dogs in it. If you missed this link from an earlier post, here is a Filipino spaghetti that uses both banana ketchup (found at Asian grocery stores) and hotdogs:
http://visualrecipes.com/recipe-details/recipe_id/506/Filipino-Style-Spaghetti/

To answer another question that was posted regarding how to start the general adoption process, first you need to do lots of research to decide whether to do domestic vs. international and then if international you need to research the individual countries as they all have different requirements. All adoptions require a homestudy completed with a licensed social worker and different states require different things as well such as parenting classes. Each country has its own requirements as well such as psych evaluations if doing Filipino adoption. That's the basics in starting the process.

We have been enjoying the early summer heat wave with plenty of time in the pool which is now over 80 degrees Fahrenheit (that's 10 degrees warmer from last week!) And we spent yesterday at Cedar Point, America's RollerCoaster. I have a lot of picture to post but I am too tired to do that tonight with last night's short sleep night. I will try to post those this weekend and share in more detail about our trip to "the Point"as Jay-R called it. Kory received a phone call at 7 am this morning telling him he wasn't needed at work today. So, his three weeks off work officially began today. He'll go back mid-July. We'll go camping part of that time. He'll get to be involved with 4-H judging this year, too. Overall, things are going well. Oh, the adjusted hospital insurance paperwork came yesterday. I can breathe now!!!!