6/24/10
Home Owners
Well Endrit and I signed for the house today. Once the money gets transfered tomorrow, we close and get the keys. We are 1 day away from being home owners! I am every excited about it. Endrit is very excited about it. It will be an interesting weekend with moving and everything else that is going on. We are going to go to Home Depot today and get some necessities that need to go in first before we move. Like blinds. Whoot! We are now home owners.
6/10/10
Time
Well, regular semester school is out so I am relishing the 3 days that I have off between that and summer school. It is nice to just have to go to school at night. It is nicer that I don't have to go to school in the morning. Granted that will end on Monday.
I am trying to get all of the lessons that I will be teaching during summer school. I know all of the stuff, it is just what I think will be the most challenging for them to understand in the regular school year. I need to have a first day of school getting to know you bit. I have decided for the sake of me learning biology and that it is hard for the students to understand. We will be working on osmosis, semi-permeable membranes, genetics...I think that it will be fun.
I am trying to get all of the lessons that I will be teaching during summer school. I know all of the stuff, it is just what I think will be the most challenging for them to understand in the regular school year. I need to have a first day of school getting to know you bit. I have decided for the sake of me learning biology and that it is hard for the students to understand. We will be working on osmosis, semi-permeable membranes, genetics...I think that it will be fun.
6/5/10
Books
It is nice to see that so many people are excited that Endrit and I are adopting. We couldn't be happier than to be starting this process. I told a lady at school that we were accepted into the adoption agency and another lady over heard. Who would have thought that the one person that overheard would have been the one who had worked in adoptions for 20+ years.
We had a great chat. I asked her how to prepare and what I needed to do and she was so helpful. She suggested only getting our marriage certificate and waiting to see what else the agency needs for a home study.
She also suggested to read, read, read. Read about attachment. Read about the country. Read about toddler adoption. Read about anything that interests me with regards to adoption.
So, I got online and reserved a couple of books at the library. I got my first book today. I have started reading it and it is wonderful! It is pretty much a psychology textbook, but I am okay with that. I will only read books with scientific references at the back and an index. I don't want any joe shmo's writing on their adoption process. Everyone is different.
With each new thing that reminds me that I am going to be a mother in a relatively short time I get more excited. While reading the book today I got chill bumps and started tearing up.
Right now I am reading "The Connected Child" By Karyn B. Purvis, David R. Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine. 2 of them have Ph.D.s in child psychology. They have done specific adoption research for many years. I am excited to read the rest of the book.
We had a great chat. I asked her how to prepare and what I needed to do and she was so helpful. She suggested only getting our marriage certificate and waiting to see what else the agency needs for a home study.
She also suggested to read, read, read. Read about attachment. Read about the country. Read about toddler adoption. Read about anything that interests me with regards to adoption.
So, I got online and reserved a couple of books at the library. I got my first book today. I have started reading it and it is wonderful! It is pretty much a psychology textbook, but I am okay with that. I will only read books with scientific references at the back and an index. I don't want any joe shmo's writing on their adoption process. Everyone is different.
With each new thing that reminds me that I am going to be a mother in a relatively short time I get more excited. While reading the book today I got chill bumps and started tearing up.
Right now I am reading "The Connected Child" By Karyn B. Purvis, David R. Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine. 2 of them have Ph.D.s in child psychology. They have done specific adoption research for many years. I am excited to read the rest of the book.
6/1/10
Agency
It has been crazy trying to find an agency to work with for adoptions in Albania. With Hague convention code and Albania only working with a couple of agencies, it has been a little bit of a struggle. We were able to find the loophole. Since Endrit IS Albanian we bypass a lot of agency hokum. We are slowly but surely moving forward with adoption. It is really exciting for us.
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