Showing posts with label adoption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adoption. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

LOVE and Other Things

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone! 

My and my Valentine (Matthew) are spending the evening with friends tonight! Aaron is traveling for work, so we are going to have our own special little day. 

A little reminder that today is Giving Hearts Day in the Fargo-Moorhead area. It is an event sponsored by the Dakota Medical Foundation. If you can, please give back! If I may make a suggestion, The Village Family Services and Catholic Charities of ND (both Adoption Agencies!) would be a fabulous place to give your money to!

Here is a link to the Giving Hearts Day website! 


Thursday, February 9, 2012

Back on the Horse...

Well it is official... we are filling out our next adoption papers. We were kind of hoping that there would be less paperwork for the second time around, but no luck. Oh well, it is totally worth all the time and energy.

We are thinking we will be "back on the list" again sometime this late spring! So, it is time for me to get back on the blogging bandwagon. To tell the truth, I kind of miss it.

In case you haven't see a picture of our little family in a long time, here we are at our last photo session. These beauties will be featured in our next profile. I will post a copy as soon as I have it ready!





Friday, October 28, 2011

Adoption Class... getting schooled about adoption

Oh.. and Go Bison!

Hi Everyone... I'm back! Sorry for my long sabatical from our blog, but boy, becoming a parent really can eat up your time. We adore our amazing son Matthew!

Last night we had the opportunity to tell our families story at The Village adoption class. It was really great to share our story again... plus it brought up some topics that Aaron and I hadn't thought about when we adopt again. Yes, you read right. We will be going through the adoption process again next year!

If anyone ever wants to talk about adoption, infertility, or just being a mom, feel free to contact me. I am an open book!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

When will he or she arrive?


So, yesterday my daily schedule was thrown completely off. First off, Kari didn’t go to work so I lumbered round in the morning trying to figure out if she was staying home sick or maybe forgot to go to work, but then…she started cleaning. Dutch and I were wondering what was going on, she usually does this kind of thing on a weekend when Aaron is trying to watch football, not a Wednesday. She must be sick, yep that's it, sick..or maybe they’re getting ready for the adoption counselor to come over, I heard them talking about that last night.

Now, I don’t really have very high standards, I mean I’ll drink water out of the toilet, but she was really going all out. First she dusted everything [cough, cough], then she even used bleach in the bathrooms, that stuff really stinks. I’m used to her using those new wax rags, Dutch says it’s that stuff the Jessica sells, Norwex, but what does he know. So anyway she still used her new wax rags to wipe off the counters and tables, clean the windows and mirrors and mop the floors, but that bleach in the bathrooms still really stinks. Man, I can’t sleep, maybe I’ll go eat.

Yeah, that hit the spot - had to steal a few morsels out of the “Black hole”, Kari and Aaron think that thing will only feed us 3 times per day, but I can eat whenever I want. All I have to do is flip on my side, role over a bit onto my head, reach my arm up the spout, flip my paw a pit...clink-clink...mmm 2 morsels, 30 morea nd I'll be satisfied! Well, time for a few minutes of shut eye…mmm can’t wait to dream of chasing mice, birds or Dutch. Oh man, Dutch came and wanted to sleep on my tail. I told him to find his own bed, this one isn’t big enough for the both of us. But would he listen – kinda hard when he was already snoring. He didn’t seem to care that Kari was home today, but I knew it was coming, always does when she cleans like this. Dutch will have his tail between his legs and be under the bed or behind the couch soon – scaredy cat.

Well, all of a sudden, ok let’s be realistic I fell asleep about 8:30 and a few minutes later at about 12:15 I hear the garage door opening. What the heck is going on, is Aaron coming home for lunch? Mmm, maybe I can get him to let me taste that soup they had last night. It was really good, Kari doesn’t know it, but I had a quick taste of hers…haha. Dutch heard the door slam and couldn’t figure out who it was (really? seriously he’s kind of slow). Kari was still cleaning; pretty sure she cleaned the whole house twice, whatever. Anyway, Aaron got right to work with the vacuum. You should have seen Dutch run – he hates that thing, and when he tried to squeeze his fat butt under the bed it was pretty funny. His tail was still sticking out from under the bed – good way to hide buddy. Anyway, Aaron vacuumed the whole house while Kari jumped in the shower, then they put clean sheets on the bed – I like fresh sheets, time to sleep again..ahh.

I woke up about 2 hours later to voices and thought I’d venture out into the real world and there was this strange lady in my chair, who does she think she is. Dutch was sleeping on Kari's lap who was sitting on the couch with Aaron. I jumped up onto his lap and got a few nose scratches, oh that fealt good. They were talking to the lady and I heard a lot about babies, parenting skills, values & goals…who needs goals when you get to sleep 22 hours a day. Anyway, the lady also got a tour of the house – she got to see every room, even the ones that the doors are always closed – not fair. Kari and Aaron claim the doors are shut and the heat is off in those rooms to save money, but I know better – especially for the office, Aaron doesn’t want me playing with all of his farm and Bobcat toys – there so fun to knock off the shelf. The lady even mentioned that they make Crib Tents so that furry animals can’t bother a sleeping baby in a crib… I can’t believe she hinted that Aaron was a fury animal…that’s not very nice, I mean he shaves at least once a week.

Anyway, the lady said that she’d get the paperwork done in the next few weeks and that she’d discuss their profile at their November staff meeting. Then, their profiles would be placed in the books at all of their offices in ND as well as online. Must be that facebook, Kari is always updating her online profile. Anyway, Kari and Aaron were really excited after she left, because they are supper excited for the next step, apparently they get to wait for someone to choose to include them in an adoption plan for a child. It sounds like they mean someone like Ina Claire who visits us often - she just eats, poops and sleeps. Or maybe they are adopting another cat because that’s all Dutch ever does. Either way, I am excited to have someone new to play with, I wonder when he or she will get here - hopefully it' soon...I can teach them to feed me when ever I want!

Well, off to the litter box, then another nap - I need my rest, I’m sure I have to eat soon.

Duke

Friday, October 1, 2010

Aaron and Kari...Unplugged

After months of gathering pictures, writing text, and bugging my friends to proofread...our profile is FINISHED!

Hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed working on it. 

In case the link about doesn't work... http://aaronkariadopt.blogspot.com/p/our-adoption-profile.html 

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The most important interview of my life.......


When Kari and I decided to begin an adoption plan to add to our family we chose The Adoption Option as our adoption agency. The Adoption Option is a collaboration between The Village Family Service Center and Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota.
The adoption process is very detailed and involves numerous visits with our adoption counselor and/or other staff at the adoption option. Our journey began with an informational session, then the Adoption Educational & Preparation Workshop. We are currently in the Assessment portion of the process. This includes taking a Temperamet Analysis and Parenting Inventory as well as the visits with the counselor.
Today, I had my first invdividual interview with our counselor. This allowed her to learn more about me in a one-on-one discussion. We talked about many different topics, a few of which include my family history, school history, medical hisotry and my parents. I learned alot about my parents as we disucssed their parenting techniques and my many experiences growing up. Thank you, Mom & Dad, for setting such a great example of how to be a good parent - it's going to be useful very soon!
Kari had the same individual interview yesterday. Next, in two weeks, Kari and I will meet wtih our conselor together to discuss marriage and additional family background information. After that, hopefully by the end of October, we'll be able to schedule our first in-home visits. If all goes as planned, we'll be added to the list of available adoptive families ready to bring a newborn into our home by December.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Nighty night little one


Time to pack....and play! I have been waiting for the "right time" to start buying baby supplies. I have had my perfect baby room planned in my head for a long time, but have been too scared to buy anything not wanting to jinx us. Well, I threw that out the window today and bought our future child a pack n' play!

Now that the ball is really rolling on our adoption process, I thought it was time we start to prepare for the arrival of our new family member. We talked it out and thought a pack n' play would be a good idea for our first purchase because we can use it for the first few weeks after our baby arrives. We are also hoping our darling little goddaughter will get to use it from time to time!

With each step, my heart soars with the prospect at being a mom. It is amazing how much you can know you love someone without even knowing they exist in this world yet. Can't wait to meet you my little one.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Taking the first step....

Sometimes taking your first step is the hardest part of the journey. Aaron and I always knew that we wanted to have kids. We have been through quite a few ups and downs in our journey to do so. When we came to the decision that we would grow our little family through adoption, we felt like a huge weight had been lifted from our shoulders.

We are currently still in the approval stage of our adoption process, but we are getting closer everyday! We are going to use our blog to keep in touch with family and friends on our adoption process and as a way to get get in touch with families that are looking to make an adoption plan for their child.

Wish us luck! Now onto the next step....