I heard from our agency director yesterday afternoon. She sent me a very short, straightforward email. I appreciate that. She said that the girl chose a different family, and that she made her choice very quickly after sitting down with the adoption specialist and the stack of profiles. Our director said she thinks this is a case of a very young girl making a quick decision, like ripping off a band-aide. Continue reading
“Happy” Endings to Adoption Stories
Bear with me. This post is more of a rant than anything else. But we all need those every once in a while, right?
I was just on a parenting website and landed on an article about adoption. The story followed all of the stereotypical adoption story lines: Continue reading
Filed under Adoption General
First Possible Situation…
That we know of.
Let me clarify. Our agency may have shown our profile to 200 expectant women by now {crazy exaggeration} but we wouldn’t know it. Two days ago, I actually got an email from our director about a possible situation with an agency that they sometimes help who was looking for a family for a one month old baby boy. The fees were way too high with this other agency, so we couldn’t even consider it. However, this morning I got a call asking us if we’d like to be shown to one particular situation with a young lady expecting a baby boy. This one is through our own agency, and well within our budget. She’s healthy, baby’s believed to be healthy. She’s Caucasian, and baby is biracial {could be Hispanic/White or African American/White}. Everything sounds good. Continue reading
Filed under Adoption General, Personal Posts
Why We Want to Homeschool
“You can’t protect him from the world forever.”
“Couldn’t he learn about Jesus at church or at home but still get an education in a public school?”
“He’s going to be a weirdo with no friends and no social life.”
“There are bullies everywhere in life, keeping him out of schools won’t stop him from encountering one.”
“He needs to have a realistic view of the world- not just a religious view.” Continue reading
Filed under Learning at Home
Simplify Your Life: Turn off the Technology
“No more computer!”
Little had just woken up from his nap and was standing in the living room blurry eyed with his wild hair. While he slept, I’d pulled out the laptop and was working on homework and shopping for books on Amazon. I had the laptop out earlier that day too. In fact, I had it out most of the morning. I was behind in one of my classes and was eagerly checking my email every five minutes in the hopes of hearing from our agency director. He spent most of the morning {okay, all of it} entertaining himself while movie after movie played on the TV. Continue reading
Filed under Simplify Your Life
Different Feeling Kind of Day
Blah. I mentioned in my post about the ups and downs of the first month wait that some days are better than others. Some days are easier than others. Yesterday I was online looking up Halloween costumes for Little. He wants to be a dinosaur/dragon, so I’m trying to find something that looks like a not-creepy creature. I found a crocodile costume that might work for what he has in mind. I digress. Continue reading
Filed under Faith and Adoption
Remembering September 11th
I’ve been on a slight hiatus from blogging for the past week as we adjust to our new schedule which includes Travis’s school, my school, and our at-home routine which was thrown off last week when LB’s molars came in and kept him up for several nights in a row. I promise to dive back in this week, because I’ve missed being here.
In the meantime, I wanted to extend my heart out to anyone who lost a loved one in the attacks on September 11th in 2001. Continue reading
Filed under Personal Posts
One Month Waiting Check In
I thought since I’m going through this entire process start to finish with all of you, I would touch base with my readers once a month as we continue through the wait process to let everyone see the emotions I’m experiencing along the way. For many adoptive parents, the wait is the most dreaded part of the journey because we have nothing but negative warnings thrown at us about the wait. You already heard my mini rant about being labeled as desperate very early in the process in my post titled Are All Adoptive Parents Desperate? The post talks about the warnings of that desperateness that everyone inevitably says will set in. I’m trying to avoid that feeling as much as I can. Continue reading
Filed under Adoption General
Simplify Your Life: Stay at Home Mom Schedule
Feel free to read on, but I wanted to let you know I also updated our schedule since Little is older and I’m trying to keep him busier this fall. So here is our Fall 2012 Schedule!
I get asked from time to time about what our at-home schedule looks like. To be quite honest, creating one was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I’ve always gone to school, attended college, worked jobs, and relied heavily on teachers, professors, and supervisors who created schedules for me. One the hardest parts of transitioning from the working world to the at-home world is the schedule shift. Not only the schedule shift, but also the concept of creating a schedule entirely from scratch with no outside direction for the first time in your life. For me, at least, this was daunting. And it took a really long time to come up with something. Continue reading
Filed under Parenting, Simplify Your Life, Stay at Home Moms
Love Makes A Family {by mommyponders} 