Last night our adoption worker, Katie, came over for our annual home study update visit. Everything went good, just a few odds and ends of paperwork to fill out. This time around we are applying for our foster care license which will open us up to adopting Minnesota kids, as well as being placed with kids that have a concurrent plan, whether it be reunification with a birth parent, or being adopted.
I can definitely say that my outlook on adoption has changed this past year. I've done a lot of research and reading these past twelve months and have had my eyes opened to some of the behaviors and challenges that come along with RAD and FASD that I didn't know existed before. Just reading blogs on here and listening to what other adoptive parents have to say has really taught me a lot. I definitely think we are more prepared today that we were last year at this time. So waiting this past year hasn't necessarily been a bad thing. It's gave us a lot of time to talk, think and learn....but enough with the waiting - we're ready now!!!
The summer has been good so far. We've stayed busy getting things cleaned up at the lot and Steve has put in lots of hours building a nice deck and putting in a dock. Now if the weather would just warm up so we could use it! We are planning on going out there tonight to have a picnic and set up the gazebo.
I think this weekend we'll be out there too - hopefully tubing if it's warm enough.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Ok...that's better :)
Not quite so much going on...
No new news to share...we have our a home study update visit tomorrow evening...we'll be bucking down tonight and getting the rest of the paperwork finished up.
We had a nice weekend. My mom came up Friday and we visited the greenhouse here in town and picked up some flowers. Then we went for supper at Don Pablos and came home and watched The Great Outdoors...again - Tyson and I watched it a month or two ago...love that movie!
Saturday we braved the rain and joined the festivities of Summerfest downtown. We ate corndogs and funnel cakes in the rain and Tyson played in the bouncy houses for a little while. Thankfully it cleared up during the afternoon and by the time the parade was ready to start it was actually pretty nice out. I just love parades :) I was a little disappointed there was only one marching bad though :( They're my favorites! Tyson did manage to score a half a grocery bag of candy though, not to mention a sombraro that the Don Pablos employees were throwing from their float! How awesome is that?! After the parade we picked up Taco Johns and had supper at the river lot. My mom hadn't been out there since we mowed and built the deck and dock so she enjoyed that. Overall a good weekend :)
No new news to share...we have our a home study update visit tomorrow evening...we'll be bucking down tonight and getting the rest of the paperwork finished up.
We had a nice weekend. My mom came up Friday and we visited the greenhouse here in town and picked up some flowers. Then we went for supper at Don Pablos and came home and watched The Great Outdoors...again - Tyson and I watched it a month or two ago...love that movie!
Saturday we braved the rain and joined the festivities of Summerfest downtown. We ate corndogs and funnel cakes in the rain and Tyson played in the bouncy houses for a little while. Thankfully it cleared up during the afternoon and by the time the parade was ready to start it was actually pretty nice out. I just love parades :) I was a little disappointed there was only one marching bad though :( They're my favorites! Tyson did manage to score a half a grocery bag of candy though, not to mention a sombraro that the Don Pablos employees were throwing from their float! How awesome is that?! After the parade we picked up Taco Johns and had supper at the river lot. My mom hadn't been out there since we mowed and built the deck and dock so she enjoyed that. Overall a good weekend :)
Ok so be honest...
Is my page too busy?? Hello??
I'm thinking it is....too hard to read the text on the side....I'll play with it more later....I love the new options though! Very cool!
I'm thinking it is....too hard to read the text on the side....I'll play with it more later....I love the new options though! Very cool!
Monday, June 7, 2010
Ok so....apparently I can't count...
Because as of today we've been waiting 333 days for a match..LOL...I was getting a little ahead of myself with that last post! Haha!!
We recently began filling out paperwork for our renewal...I 've enjoyed myself immensly filling it out this far...NOT. Although, there is way less now than there was for the initial approval so that's a relief at least. We are also applying for our foster care license! Yay!!! I truely feel that this is THE year!
On the homefront, things are terrific :) We closed on our river lot last week and Steve completed the deck and installed the dock this weekend. Hopefully the weather warms up a bit so we can tube the river soon! We cleaned up our canoe yesterday and will probably take that down the river before we tube it just to make sure there's not any areas that are really weedy that we wouldn't be able to get a tube through. We have some house plans drawn up as well, and we're just waiting for the bid to come back. There's still a few changes we want to make, but we're pretty much sure this is the one! We were forunate enough to be able to take a peak inside the exact same house that they had already built for someone else which was super nice. It's so hard to imagine what the house will look like by looking a flat peice of paper so seeing it really helped make the decision an easy one!
We recently began filling out paperwork for our renewal...I 've enjoyed myself immensly filling it out this far...NOT. Although, there is way less now than there was for the initial approval so that's a relief at least. We are also applying for our foster care license! Yay!!! I truely feel that this is THE year!
On the homefront, things are terrific :) We closed on our river lot last week and Steve completed the deck and installed the dock this weekend. Hopefully the weather warms up a bit so we can tube the river soon! We cleaned up our canoe yesterday and will probably take that down the river before we tube it just to make sure there's not any areas that are really weedy that we wouldn't be able to get a tube through. We have some house plans drawn up as well, and we're just waiting for the bid to come back. There's still a few changes we want to make, but we're pretty much sure this is the one! We were forunate enough to be able to take a peak inside the exact same house that they had already built for someone else which was super nice. It's so hard to imagine what the house will look like by looking a flat peice of paper so seeing it really helped make the decision an easy one!
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