Onward, ho!
I let you all know last Monday that our home study report was typed and done and ready for our review. Well, on Saturday we got the official hard copy of things along with a letter from our agency that read like a college acceptance letter: Continue reading
Filed under Adoption Agencies, Adoption General, Homestudy
Last week I talked about the very core essentials needed for a new baby, and obviously toys don’t fall under this category. However, toys are fun and can spark a child’s imagination and keep little hands busy. Here I’ll give ideas and tips on how to creatively create or modify a toy at home… Continue reading
Filed under Creative Ideas and Crafts, Simplify Your Life
We’re on a short family vacation with my brother and grandparents in Albuquerque, NM for the next couple of days. {I’ll add adorable pictures of Little at the botanical gardens and aquarium when we get home.}
However, I had to tell you all: I opened up my inbox today, just one week after our home visit, and you know what was there?? Our typed and completed home study report! Continue reading
Our Simple Life Story
For quite some time now, I’ve thought about starting a series on here regarding the joy that can be found when one simplifies their life. Three years ago, Travis and I fell on severe financial hardships and were forced to reconsider our concept of happiness and satisfaction. During this humbling process where we went from a three bedroom house to a one bedroom apartment, I believe we found true happiness. Continue reading
Hey everybody,
I’ve finally added a tutorial to my Tutorials page! Travis and I refinished a dresser for Bug’s room since he’ll be sharing with his baby sister. We needed to make more room in there since a new person will be added to the room {soon we hope}, so we got rid of the old changing table that was falling apart and moved the tall and bulky dresser he was using down into my sewing room.
The dresser we found was exactly what we were looking for! Three drawers on one side for Bug’s clothes, three on the other for baby sister’s, and then three hidden in the middle for diapers and accessories that I really was never thrilled about having out in the open. It was also just the perfect height for a changing table.
Check it out!
Kat
Filed under Creative Ideas and Crafts, Preparing for Baby
Before I begin this post, I want to go ahead and link to Knocked Up Knocked Over’s post on cloth diapering. Her friend Katie, an avid CDer {that’s the forum lingo there} wrote a guest post about cloth diapering that is fantastic for absolute cloth diapering idiots like me. Continue reading
Filed under Budget-Friendly Parenting, Cloth Diapering
Tomorrow is THE meeting. The meeting we’ve been working towards and fretting over and talking about and praying for since April. Well, really, I’ve been thinking about this meeting since I first seriously started researching adoption back in January of 2010. Continue reading
Filed under Adoption General, Homestudy
Our paperwork lady really worked hard finding us a new social worker! It kind of makes me wonder if God’s hand wasn’t in all of this rearranging.
As an adoptive parent, you want your social worker to feel like a friend. They aren’t the enemy. They aren’t coming into your home to invade your privacy and wander through your home to torture you or make you feel like a criminal. Although sometimes the home study process certainly does feel that way on this end of things. I believe most social workers really are great people who chose social work as their career because they care about people and children. Continue reading
Filed under Homestudy, Personal Posts
So. We’ve waited on letters, waited on phone calls, waited on emails, waited on responses, waited for answers…
And still we’re waiting. Continue reading
Filed under Adoption General, Hyperemesis Gravidarum
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Love Makes A Family {by mommyponders} 