Sunday Rambling...

I am still working on my "about me" post, it should be up tonight, um that is if I have the guts!  So tonights post will be kinda rambly  i guess. It is just a bunch of thoughts that I have had today.

So some (maybe all of you?) know that we are pursuing foster/adoption through social services of WI. Well about a month ago we sent in our "interest" application. We had thought maybe we would get a responce from the state before we left for the trip, or at least during our trip. We didn't, but I wasn't to surprised.  I was planning on emailing a friend who is a social worker in the state child welfare system to see how long response usually was, but before I got a chance to do that, we got a big manila envie in the mail. Nothing stood out as it being important, but I was a smiling away when I saw who it was from!! Yeah the state got back to us!! So now we are finishing up that application. I had hoped to send it off early this next week, but there is so much financial info asked that Kevin and I have to sit down and look through our paperwork.  We also have to have "non familial" references.  so we sent out the request to a bunch of people the other day, guessing that we will have a few no's, and the extra will cover us, well OMG!! the response has been awesome!! Half the people we asked have said yes! yeah!! We are still waiting for two more couples to say yes/or no, although one has previously said they would be a reference if we needed one, so really we are just waiting on one.  So cool!!  We even asked someone who didn't know about us pursueing adoption, but she has known me since um I was born, she is my sisters friend, and her fam is friends with my fam, so yeah, that was nice for her to say yes.

Along the foster planning route, it is a totally odd feeling I have been having.  So I have been doing a bunch of research about what is covered in the average homestudy, and what is needed   to pass the home inspection, and just general thinking about what we have to do/get to be ready. Well being the list maker that I am, I started a target list, its like a gift registry sorta. I figure that way I have all the stuff I have to get in one place. Already added a few things to...A booster seat, some pinch guards for our closets and some electrical cover things.  The "odd" feeling is that I feel like I am making a baby registry or something... odd. Oh well.

Ok so I guess today is really me talking a lot about foster adoption... My other thing to bring up, yesterday Kevin and I went to a family friends sons bday party. Yes they are family friends, but more friends with my parents and sister, so it was odd being the only stabenfeldt's there.  Had we known that my parents and sisters family wasnt coming, I probably wouldnt have come either.  But I must say it was interesting to be an onlooker on craziness!!  Also, I have realized... it gets really boring telling our "story" about how we are pursueing foster/adopt after about the fifth or sixth time. But i shoulda guessed it would be that way...we were at one of our references houses, and they were the ones that didnt know we were pursuing foster/adopt.  ok seriously I need to find an abreiviation, or not type it so much!!  Hmm, how about F2A or F/A.  Hmm ok guess I'll use one of those from now on!!

One last thing on the F/A or IF world. I will maybe be going to my first actual Resolve Infertility support group. I say maybe because I am freaking anxious about this. Yes I did go to a bible study with a few of these ladies at the beginning of the month, but it sounds like very few actually go to the bible study, most go to the support group. I just feel odd because A) I am shy, duh... B) I still haven't really found my spot in the IF world. My situation is way different than most of the IF peeps... to go or not to go...

Oh also, my fellow reading friends, just finished Devil in the White City. Really good book. I think I like the story of the fair's creation more than the story of Holme's murders.  I did have one section or topic that I really didn't get why the author put it in, the continuing little bits about Prendergast.  Now to make a question hand out for wednesday's book club, oh and figure out what food to bring, other than cracker jacks!!  Also thought all the connections and new companies that came out of the World's Fair was really cool.  Ok, off to finish my story blog post.  I don't know if I have the guts to do it though...