Timeline

Oct 14 08- TX DPFS Orientation/Sumbit Inital PW :woohoo:
Nov 8- PRIDE Class begins!:cheer:
Dec 20- Last PRIDE Class :clap:
Jan 6 09- Finger Prints :hypno:
Jan 31- Drug Handling Class :eek:
March 11- Home Eval Meeting Yay!
April 1- CW admmits to having lost file, having then found file, and having turned it in today. Grr.
April 1- Behavior intervention class
April 2- Homestudy Call
April 7, 5 p.m.- Final Homestudy Meeting
May 1- Homestudy sumbitted to state of TX
June 4- APPROVED! and waiting to be matched...
Searching for 1 or 2 girls aged 4-8 all levels considered.

Homestudy Complete

I am in the final stages of being approved for adoption. I had my final homestudy meeting on April 7th! Now I am doing the waiting for approval dance. This dance can last for up to 45 days, if there are no delays. :/ In the meantime I'm ttrying to focus on the details of my life that I "forgot" about in the past few months as I have been working my adoption like a second job. Now I have to stay away from the photolistings of waiting children, every day I fall in love with a child and can't do anything! Waiting for approval is the pits. :( I am loving the new house. 1300 sq. ft is way to much for just me! But it really feels like a home, all I need is little feet running through it!

Journey on...

The PRIDE classes are almost over, paper work is filed, and the path continues on. I am waited for the wonderful couple in the house infront of me to move out, so that I can move in!

A New Journey

Obviously I am a lazy blogger. That being said this blog is turning over a new leaf. A lot of things have evolved recently.

Number 1: I am in the process of adopting a daughter from the TX foster care system.

Number 2: I have to move in the process of making room for said daughter.

Number 3: Thats a drag. But we have to do what we have to do.

I am enrolled in the PRIDE classes (parenting class) here in Houston. It's exciting, and scary.
I feel like CPS has been very clear that these children have a host of trauma and related issues and that we should be prepared for ANY kind of behaviors. So far so good.

And so this blog becomes a family/adoption blog. :) <3

Hope

Today could be the first day of the rest of my life.

These my days are filled with Joyful laughs and longs walks. Tomorrow is the monthly meeting of the children's meditation program that I am running for Houston's Shambhala Meditation Center. And tomorrow afternoon I think I will take in Gab's talk at the Menil. I am learning a few words in Norwegian to help a new friend. :)

Sunday
May 4
3:00 p.m.
THE ARTIST'S EYE
Gabriela Trzebinski
Gallery Talk on African Art
Born in Nairobi, Kenya, to a Polish father and English mother, Gabriela Trzebinski was raised on an island in East Africa (primarily Muslim), and educated in an Indian primary school in Mombasa and a Roman Catholic convent school. Largely self-taught, Trzebinski attended art schools in London, but abandoned them for what she calls the more “challenging and exploratory world of life experience.” Now a Houston resident, Trzebinski has participated in solo and group shows in Australia, Africa, Europe, and the United States.

The BIG edit

There are so many things that I own that I don't need. And so we begin th process of the big edit. The edit will expunge all the things that are not useful, wanted or treasured. The new apartment is much smaller and so I will willing and quickly simplify life by simply releasing objects that are not needed. Is this a new counter culture event away from the societal desire for excess? I hope so.
Freecycle will love this.