Awaiting Nor'Easter

Hello :)

Well, Kyle asked if we could make one of my favorite recipes "Nor'Easter Beef Stew a few days ago not knowing that we'd be dealing with a real Nor'Easter. Evidently we are supposed to get close to a foot of snow tomorrow. I've already realized that there is no way I'm going to work tomorrow unless their prediction is a total wash.

We've had yet another low-key weekend. This past Friday was my first Friday off with my new schedule. I headed to my mom's house around 11:00 & she helped me with some things I needed to do for the adoption process. I had to get copies of my birth certificate and our marriage license. Instead of me going into the various town halls my mom did. It made things go a lot quicker. As most of you know, things take longer with me because I have to transfer and get in and out of the van, etc. Anyway, my mom was so helpful. I think she is just so excited to be a grandmother again that she'll do anything to speed the process along. After that we got lunch at our favorite salad place and split an amazing salad. It is huge that is why we split it. Then we decided we'd rent a movie. We rented Two Weeks with Sally Field. I think it was initially a TV movie, maybe HBO. It was good but extremely DEPRESSING. We were sobbing throughout the whole movie pretty much. Sally Field's character has terminal cancer and her four children come to spend the last two weeks of her life with her. It was soooooo sad. In retrospect it wasn't the best choice because my mom is 70 and I know she is at the point where she is thinking a lot about her own mortality. Then I started to stress about how I'm ever going to live without my mom. I just love her so much.

We have the Social Worker coming on Thursday to meet with both Kyle and I individually so this weekend we've been getting our condo cleaned and organized. On Saturday morning we had to take Rosie to the vet to get her Rabies vaccine. She is such a good girl.

We still haven't decided on which country we will adopt from. I'm still researching countries and it and seems like the rules change every other day.

Progress with Home Study

We made a good deal of progress this past weekend with our adoption checklist for the home study. We were able to go to the bank and get forms notarized. That was a big one. Thankfully our bank is open on Sundays. Kyle was sick most of the weekend so we had a very low-key weekend. He was trying to take it easy but he still managed to get rid of our Xmas tree and put away a lot of the Xmas decorations. We have so many!

Anyway, back to the adoption process, we both officially finished out autobiographies last night. They were a lot of work but they are finished. Now we need to mail those to the Social Worker and all the individuals that we asked to be references for us. Now we just have to keep plugging away at our “To Do List.” We both still have to have our Dr’s fill out a medical form. I have to get a “special” letter from my doctor that specifically says that my disability will not interfere with my ability to parent. I’m telling you, it is SO much harder to adopt than to have your own child.

Other than plugging away at all this, we haven’t been up to much. We really wanted to see a movie this past weekend but the theaters near us did not have any of the movies we wanted to see. We love to go to the movies but we never go. I really want to see Juno.

I’m in a rut lately with recipes. I’m sick of everything and really need to change things up a bit. I did make Snicker Doodle Maple cookies (yum) for my hubby this weekend and homemade chicken soup (boring.)

I have a new schedule at work that I’m really excited about. Instead of having Mondays off I have Friday off and I work at home Tuesdays and Thursday. Whooo!!! That means I’m only in the office twice a week. I think this will work out better b/c the traffic isn’t as bad on Mondays. Plus, my mom is off on Fridays which means I get to hang with her. I love my mom. OK, folks that is it from us. We’ll keep you posted on things.