So the last few days have been busy but pretty good. Monday I was paid on call for 12 hours and it was so nice! I needed that break to get stuff down around the house and I was off Tuesday so I had 4 days off in a row! Awesome! Wednesday was a decent day at work but can I tell you I am a labor nurse that's where my heart is. I like taking care of moms the day after sometimes but I like labor the best!
Then yesterday I worked on my adoption quilt. Its not the best and how I want it but it will have to do. I'm just a perfectionist! And on top of that I cleaned and did stuff around the house. Belle had a runny nose yesterday and I had the feeling she was getting sick. Last night was awful! I have her medicine to help her nose and cough but she ended up in our bed and we all slept bad. We would have even if she had not been in our bed because she was up every 15 minutes after 11 last night. By 5 am I called out because Paul won't make any money if he stays home with her. I at least get leave pay. It sucks because I feel calling out and leaving my coworkers in a bind but I need I put my family first and take care of us financially first as well.
Now adoption stuff. We finished our online training so we are just waiting for our report for our home study! Then it will be finalized and we can work on more fingerprinting stuff and finalizing our dossier stuff. Then hopefully getting it down in January. We are just praying that we get the funds for our matching grant that we will have once we get our home study in for it! As for our fundraiser I think it will be awesome! I'm just hoping we get enough people to come then it will be really great! We got a $100 gift certificate donated for a boat or jet ski rental too. We have about $800 worth of stuff in donations! Crazy! I just called and asked that's it! I really hope a lot of people come because if not the silent auction will have to e held or continued online which I may do anyway because we can probably get more return from that. And I just want to say thank you to all those who have donated and are helping our family!!
So that's my life and next week will be busy getting ready for the fundraiser and baking favors and cupcakes for the dessert and of course quilting but it will all be okay. Gods got this! He will provide the people and the funding! He provided the items for auction so he will provide the people too!
Friday, November 30, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Continuing to be busy!!
So since I last posted we have had my mom's surprise birthday party which I so wanted to post about but couldn't because she reads this! And we have had Thanksgiving.
So mom's party was a hit! It was small but I think she loved it! She loves Jimmy Buffet and on an off chance actually met him over the summer outside of his concert waiting to get in of all places!! He was just standing off by himself and she being brave asked if he was in fact Jimmy which he denied but after convincing him to take a picture and researching the clothing he wore it was him!! Jimmy wrote a book called "A Pirate looks at 50", so in light of this and my mom turning 50 we had "A pirate turns 50" party for her!! And for once in my and Glory's lives we surprised my mom!! We had a banner with a pirate ship and treasure map plates, and table cloth, and the best thing was the treasure chest cake made by my friend Mandy and everything was edible!! Her birthday was the 15th but we had her party a week ago. And then Thanksgiving was at our house. Which was crazy because I worked everyday before Thursday except Monday!! But it was good and with the party and having family over on Thursday too Paul was such a big help in cleaning and getting the turkey ready. We did a pot luck Thanksgiving instead of putting the burden on one person. And it was delicious and warming to the heart to have my family and Paul's all here with us. Then Paul and I both worked on Friday which disappointed me because I wanted to go shopping with all the crazy people, but I went on Saturday and got most everything I wanted/needed without the hassle of big crowds, crazy, nasty people. So all is good! And we decorated for Christmas and got the tree up yesterday, which unfortunately the top lights on our prelit tree were out, so we had to buy a new one. Which we picked up today and I LOVE it!!
On top of all that craziness of my life, the adoption stuff has been crazy and stressful too! I am making a quilt for our coffee, dessert, and silent auction fundraiser on the 9th. (And making baby gifts). And I have been calling trying to get things donated for our auction, and get other fundraisers started too. Oh and trying to get the doctor to write our letters specifying what our mainly my conditions are and trying to get our home study report. So two things happened this month. One was the doctor telling me he didn't have time to write the letters for us and it would never happen, so I wrote them and got them approved, then when I called to tell them that he was working on them. So I am trying to get mine approved now, since he won't change anything else and keep mine to one page. I'm praying it's not a big deal. The second thing that happened was I expected earlier in the month to hear about our home study report and still had not heard as of last Monday. When we should have heard the beginning of the month. Anyway, long story short the agency wasn't sure what was going on with our social worker and they were concerned for her. Well, later this week we heard from her and what had happened and received our home study report to review and make any changes necessary! The sad thing that I have had to wrap my head around is that we will not be DTE (Dossier to Ethiopia) until sometime in January. My goal was for December 31st, but everything is in God's timing and maybe our process after DTE will speed up. I'm not counting on it, but anything is possible! I am anticipating a two year wait though. And the last adoption news is we are still waiting to hear about our grant from church. We are hoping to send a letter to family and friends with Christmas cards. So please pray we get this stuff and that we get the financing we need for our Dossier and that our upcoming fundraiser does really well!! Wee are working on advertising for it too, so praying!!
So mom's party was a hit! It was small but I think she loved it! She loves Jimmy Buffet and on an off chance actually met him over the summer outside of his concert waiting to get in of all places!! He was just standing off by himself and she being brave asked if he was in fact Jimmy which he denied but after convincing him to take a picture and researching the clothing he wore it was him!! Jimmy wrote a book called "A Pirate looks at 50", so in light of this and my mom turning 50 we had "A pirate turns 50" party for her!! And for once in my and Glory's lives we surprised my mom!! We had a banner with a pirate ship and treasure map plates, and table cloth, and the best thing was the treasure chest cake made by my friend Mandy and everything was edible!! Her birthday was the 15th but we had her party a week ago. And then Thanksgiving was at our house. Which was crazy because I worked everyday before Thursday except Monday!! But it was good and with the party and having family over on Thursday too Paul was such a big help in cleaning and getting the turkey ready. We did a pot luck Thanksgiving instead of putting the burden on one person. And it was delicious and warming to the heart to have my family and Paul's all here with us. Then Paul and I both worked on Friday which disappointed me because I wanted to go shopping with all the crazy people, but I went on Saturday and got most everything I wanted/needed without the hassle of big crowds, crazy, nasty people. So all is good! And we decorated for Christmas and got the tree up yesterday, which unfortunately the top lights on our prelit tree were out, so we had to buy a new one. Which we picked up today and I LOVE it!!
On top of all that craziness of my life, the adoption stuff has been crazy and stressful too! I am making a quilt for our coffee, dessert, and silent auction fundraiser on the 9th. (And making baby gifts). And I have been calling trying to get things donated for our auction, and get other fundraisers started too. Oh and trying to get the doctor to write our letters specifying what our mainly my conditions are and trying to get our home study report. So two things happened this month. One was the doctor telling me he didn't have time to write the letters for us and it would never happen, so I wrote them and got them approved, then when I called to tell them that he was working on them. So I am trying to get mine approved now, since he won't change anything else and keep mine to one page. I'm praying it's not a big deal. The second thing that happened was I expected earlier in the month to hear about our home study report and still had not heard as of last Monday. When we should have heard the beginning of the month. Anyway, long story short the agency wasn't sure what was going on with our social worker and they were concerned for her. Well, later this week we heard from her and what had happened and received our home study report to review and make any changes necessary! The sad thing that I have had to wrap my head around is that we will not be DTE (Dossier to Ethiopia) until sometime in January. My goal was for December 31st, but everything is in God's timing and maybe our process after DTE will speed up. I'm not counting on it, but anything is possible! I am anticipating a two year wait though. And the last adoption news is we are still waiting to hear about our grant from church. We are hoping to send a letter to family and friends with Christmas cards. So please pray we get this stuff and that we get the financing we need for our Dossier and that our upcoming fundraiser does really well!! Wee are working on advertising for it too, so praying!!
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Been busy!
I cannot believe it's been over a month since I have been on to write! Not that my life is super duper exciting but like I've said before it's my life! So the synopsis over the last month which was super busy by the way. Paul and Belle went to visit Paul's grandfather the beginning of the month for his birthday since he doesn't travel much anymore. On the trip Belle never wet her pull up or panties for 5 hours straight in the car!! Since then she has been in panties and is pretty much potty trained, although she does have accidents a few times a week and we are still working on the pooping in the potty. But she is doing great! Paul also found out on this trip that his cousin and her husband are adopting from Haiti!! Now the interesting part is the last time we were up visiting with them, neither she nor I were pregnant. We both however got pregnant within a month of each other! Our due dates were two weeks apart. And so our kids are about three weeks apart and now we are both adopting inter-racially and internationally! It makes me so excited! Then the next weekend we got our family pictures done. Thanks to Kathy Passmore Photography! Then the weekend of the 20th the three of us were in Paul's other cousin's wedding in Richmond, Va. They got married at the Edgar Allen Poe Museum which was pretty cool and was a great setting for family pictures! I got awesome pictures of Belle too! We had a good time and spent time with family we don't see often at all. Then the next weekend I worked a craft fair for our adoption and made $16. And I sold nothing that I made! We also did a bake sale that weekend and made $68 total for our adoption between both. Then Hurricane Sandy arrived the beginning of the week. I worked during the first portion of the hurricane and thankfully we never lost power or had any damage! Then it was Halloween and we took Belle trick or treating for the first time. She liked it, but we didn't go to a lot because I didn't want her to have a bunch of candy. But she liked it! We also had to buy a new tv last month because ours stopped working properly.
This month has been busy too. I worked last weekend and then worked an extra shift for someone. Which this week put me three days in a row. I was totally done by yesterday evening! Work has been a tad stressful lately with some critical patients but it is gaining me experience, so I appreciate that as long as the outcome is okay. And praise God my chocolate fast was over on the first!!
Now for adoption updates. We had all of our home study visits last month and are just waiting to view our report. Once we receive the report we will have everything we need for our grant, and send the rest of that stuff in. We are currently working on the online training (which I should be doing now instead of this but oh well). And we are still trying to sell a few things. We are currently also doing a Mary Kay fundraiser thanks to our friend Jacy Wolfe who is donating her profits to our adoption! We are also going to be doing Chick-Fil-A calendar sales once I talk to the marketing director. And we are doing a Coffee, Dessert, and Silent Auction fundraiser December 9th. I have been working on a quilt for the auction and have a couple photography pieces for it so far. Another photographer will be donating a photo session and package, and today I called around and we will be getting baseball game tickets, play tickets, and wine tasting tickets! I was thrilled and so excited that people are just donating and so willing to help!! The tickets for the fundraiser are $5 a piece and kids are free. We are going to feature the coffee from our online fundraiser that is from Ethiopia. I am so excited! I just need to buy the coffee, the cookie cutter, and the supplies for the cupcakes. We are giving out a favor which will be a cookie in the shape of Ethiopia with the flag colors. And I need to arrange for someone to do Christmas music for us. Any takers?! So some snags we have run into is needing to finish the online training quickly, not getting our home study report quickly, and not getting our detailed medical letters from our doctor. The letters is the biggest snag because he told me he didn't have any time at all to write them and that he didn't think he would be able to. I cried after talking to him about it. But then when I emailed our family coordinator she said to write it and have him approve it. So I did that and wrote our application letters last night. I was feeling very anxious about everything we have to get done, but I am feeling much calmer because I am checking things off! And I have just been praying that God will provide the money we need for our adoption and I am going to see what I can do to get the word out about our silent auction so hopefully we will make a decent amount for our dossier submission. Anyway, that's about it on adoption stuff.
Belle is doing well, although she is hitting at daycare. But she is getting better about listening and staying in time out. She was having trouble and needing us to fall asleep and not going to sleep until 9 or after. But after a week and half of "training" she is doing better again.
I think that is all for now. I will try to keep up a little better!
This month has been busy too. I worked last weekend and then worked an extra shift for someone. Which this week put me three days in a row. I was totally done by yesterday evening! Work has been a tad stressful lately with some critical patients but it is gaining me experience, so I appreciate that as long as the outcome is okay. And praise God my chocolate fast was over on the first!!
Now for adoption updates. We had all of our home study visits last month and are just waiting to view our report. Once we receive the report we will have everything we need for our grant, and send the rest of that stuff in. We are currently working on the online training (which I should be doing now instead of this but oh well). And we are still trying to sell a few things. We are currently also doing a Mary Kay fundraiser thanks to our friend Jacy Wolfe who is donating her profits to our adoption! We are also going to be doing Chick-Fil-A calendar sales once I talk to the marketing director. And we are doing a Coffee, Dessert, and Silent Auction fundraiser December 9th. I have been working on a quilt for the auction and have a couple photography pieces for it so far. Another photographer will be donating a photo session and package, and today I called around and we will be getting baseball game tickets, play tickets, and wine tasting tickets! I was thrilled and so excited that people are just donating and so willing to help!! The tickets for the fundraiser are $5 a piece and kids are free. We are going to feature the coffee from our online fundraiser that is from Ethiopia. I am so excited! I just need to buy the coffee, the cookie cutter, and the supplies for the cupcakes. We are giving out a favor which will be a cookie in the shape of Ethiopia with the flag colors. And I need to arrange for someone to do Christmas music for us. Any takers?! So some snags we have run into is needing to finish the online training quickly, not getting our home study report quickly, and not getting our detailed medical letters from our doctor. The letters is the biggest snag because he told me he didn't have any time at all to write them and that he didn't think he would be able to. I cried after talking to him about it. But then when I emailed our family coordinator she said to write it and have him approve it. So I did that and wrote our application letters last night. I was feeling very anxious about everything we have to get done, but I am feeling much calmer because I am checking things off! And I have just been praying that God will provide the money we need for our adoption and I am going to see what I can do to get the word out about our silent auction so hopefully we will make a decent amount for our dossier submission. Anyway, that's about it on adoption stuff.
Belle is doing well, although she is hitting at daycare. But she is getting better about listening and staying in time out. She was having trouble and needing us to fall asleep and not going to sleep until 9 or after. But after a week and half of "training" she is doing better again.
I think that is all for now. I will try to keep up a little better!
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