Amazing Life

I believe I've told each of you that Joe and I are getting licensed to become adoptive parents.  It's really happening, people!  I mean REALLY!  We have all our paperwork turned in, and the licensor visits our house on Tuesday for the first of three meetings.  These meetings are interviews, home study, and going over paperwork.

In April Joe and I will get CPR/First Aid/BBP-HIV training certified.

In May I attend a 24-hour "Caregiver Core Training" class.

We have purchased a bunk bed and mattresses and bedding and a gun safe and a medication safe and Joe is finishing up the master bathroom shower, and we have handrails up on the stairs.

And I am frantically organizing and cleaning which isn't really that necessary, but she's going to want to go through all our cupboards and drawers and I want to do my part to make us look functional.  Some things are not going to get done and I have accepted that:

-The garage is going to be an inaccessible mess
-The beds will not be set up
-The lawn will not be mowed
-Joe's office and the spare room that has boxes of Joe's stuff will be most inaccessible

Joe worked 6 days last week and is working 6 days this week so he can't do this stuff and he has refused to ask for help...sigh. 

SO.  I have a friend coming on Sunday to help me clean and a cousin coming on Monday to finish up anything else that needs doing.  The last two days I've been unnaturally strong, resting for about 30 minutes and then doing stuff for 10 minutes.  I want to look as able as possible when the licensor comes, so on Tuesday I am going to stay absolutely still until she comes, so I can show that I am capable.

So today I tidied and cleaned the kitchen (this after making a BIG dinner last night of corned beef, brussels sprouts, carrots, potatoes, and soda bread!), tidied and dusted the living room, and have started on my desk, which is the most difficult because I keep running across things I must do before I continue the process.

I know this is a boring post all about "doing doing doing" but I have nothing else on my mind right now!  It feels good to have something with a deadline.  I miss that about working.

Oh and laundry is DONE for the first time in weeks.

This is mostly just a haphazard true "bragger" post.  I am just so happy to have our lives moving in some direction.  And you all know how I have longed to foster or adopt, but was waiting to see if Joe would want to, and suddenly he did!  God is incredible.  Nothing could have made Joe want this except the Lord.  It's really, really happening.

We don't know exactly what it'll look like.  We know the girls we want - sisters who are 14 and 15 - but we don't know if they will still be available by the time we get licensed, or even if we would get accepted to adopt them.  But we DO know that sometime eventually we will adopt or foster children (the licensing process allows us to either foster or adopt).  So that is something to look forward to, even if we don't get these girls.

Even though they have a profile online I don't want to post the link here, so let me know if you want it and I'll facebook it to you!