New beginings

Hi, everyone. Well, I am taking a little break from blogging. We are almost finished getting licensed and I'm really excited about that. It's hard work though! It takes a few months and tons of classes to get prepared for this. They give you background checks, fingerprint you, you have to have references that fill out a few pages of questions about you, they give you mental health quizzes, interviews, everything has to be up to code, (ex you have to have a fire extinguisher on every level, and we have 6 smoke detectors) and it's actually a lot more difficult to become a foster parent then one would think.

You might have noticed I changed my blog settings. Someone was harassing me and one of the comments left was a threat to my children and I obviously want to protect them from anything like that so this is why my blog is only open to those who I let look at it. Both Amadon and I thought that would be best. I don't know everyone's email address so please don't take it personally if I don't add you right away.

Well, we are living in our new home. We still have a ton of stuff to move that we will hopefully finish this week.

We were planning on coming up to DL this weekend but Therapeutic Foster Care Training is scheduled in Fargo so we have to go to that.

We have decided for sure to have a baby. So hopefully by the end of this month I will get pregnant! (yes, I know the odds and how difficult it can be to conceive but maybe we'll be lucky and it will happen right away)

Adele is upset so I will post more later.

more outside pics

outside pic

Home Sweet Home!

We got the house! Yeah!!! It's so cute and I'm so excited. This will be our first house. It was a nerve wracking process waiting for everything to go through. We get to see it again tonight so I will hopefully be able to take pictures of the inside. I have pictures of the outside we took last night. We get to move in, in 10 days! Then I'm going to throw a house warming party and you are all invited.

Dustin called us and he is going overseas which was sad but we talked about ways to stay in touch. I'm sure this must be tough on his little girls and wife. He gets to stay at a very nice place though and has internet access.

I thought about doing a garage sale today but am thinking I will do a later one after we move.

Some tough things to decide

We will condense this post a bit. I have some hard decisions to make soon regarding my current medical condition. I can choose surgery but there is a side effect of a higher miscarriage rate and possible infertility, I can watch and wait but if I progress too far that means harsher treatment choices or I might get better, and getting pregnant which can help the condition and will guarantee us another child but everyone responds differently and if it doesn't work that also means harsher treatment choices after the baby is born. I've talked to, two doctors and there really is no right or wrong choice.

hello

After countless houses we found the perfect one. The PERFECT one. Nothing fancy. It's just a really nice family house with hardwood floors throughout, a decent back yard, and we want it. The only catch? We aren't the only ones and I had to wait all day to see if the people who originally wanted it were taking it or not. Talk about nerve wracking. I also found two other homes, back up homes, that wanted us as well so it was hard to decide how long to wait and what I should pick as competition is fierce. I got a message while I was out. WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!! It's not quite over yet. We still have to do all the paperwork so it's not official but we have first dibs and that counts for something.

Now on to the bad news. I have some hard choices to make about surgery. I got a call today about doing surgery. If I wait too long, things might progress and I will have a worse option or they could get better. Or if I do the surgery, there are possible side effects like increases in miscarriage and even becoming infertile. So it's tough.

potential milestones

Well, we might have some exciting news in the next few days. We have a meeting today to discuss being potential foster parents. We've been thinking about it for a while and I think we are ready in our hearts and home to bring in another. It hasn't been an easy decision and going to this meeting today will give us more information to decide on. There are so many questions you have to ask yourself from how this will affect your family, can you handle the out burts and baggage,are you completely ready in every aspect (well, as much as you can be), will you be able to handle giving the child back in a few months, etc etc. Many questions have been running through my head for a couple of weeks now. I really learned about foster parenting at the children's fair. I noticed I was eligible for it and then it got me to start really thinking. I also just have this really good gut feeling about it. I could be wrong, but I think your gut feeling is something to take into account too. When i brought this up to Amadon he was really interested too. THis is a decision that we have to both be completely ready to take on.

This leads me to our next potential milestone. Our lease is up June 1st so we are looking at a bigger place. The first house we looked at was so-so and we have a few more that we can hopefully see today.

I thought about doing at home daycare as well, especially if our new place is spacious enough but that's a little down the road. I don't want to take on too much.

Auf Weidersehn!

update

Well, things have been taking off with my meet up group. I have 16 members and I haven't even advertised the last few weeks.It'll be interesting to see what this group is like a year from now. I have some company coming this weekend. Doug is coming!!! along with Fields and Julie. Anthony might show up. So I'm going to bake some goodies and make sure the house is company ready.

The last couple of months have been pretty tough. I feel overwhelmed with everything but I figure to take everything one step at a time. I will hopefully be enrolled in school this summer and I pray the estate is done by them. Yup, it's still a drawn out affair which my pricey lawyer is now involved in. I'm tempted to buy some space in the paper and complain about this bank but going down to their level is probably not worth it. Bad Karma.

As for the medical news, I had two abnormal tests, saw a specialist, got a procedure done that was incredibly painful ( Yup, I cried the entire time it was done) and am waiting to hear back from these results. I'm hoping this is the last thing I have to do. But as my doctor pointed out, on the bright side anything done from here on out I won't be awake for.

We are slowly decorating our place. We have some stuff and a toys r us theme in every room :) but I'm redoing the window treatments, getting nice towels, new shower curtain, etc. I have given up on keeping vases in the living room. Vases+toddler= mommy headache.

I bought a new bike and got a warranty on it that the sales guy told me covered stolen bikes. Long story short. Bike got stolen and the warranty does not cover stolen bikes. Salesmen just said that so I would buy it not thinking about the fact that this scenerio could possibly happen. It's not the end of the world. We can buy a new bike. It just ticks me off that I got lied to.

Well, I will hopefully post more frequently soon. I'm just been super busy with everything.