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| Class #2 Out of the way... |
Date Posted: 07-21-2005 at 08:10 AM |
| OK, we had another PRIDE class last night. It was a long night. I had to drop J off at work on our way home. He went to deep nights now. I don't like this shift, but it's only supposed to be a temporary setback and then he'll be back on the day shift. Well let's see oh~ last week's "homework" consisted of the state application (which by the way I thought I had already filled that out, but I was mistaken). Included with the application you had to attach the following: marriage license, any divorce decrees, paycheck stubs, and pictures of the house and family. OH and I had to sketch the floorplan of our home. OH that was fun let me tell you. We also had 12 questions to answer about our class. Everything was turned in last night. Now I have homework from last night's class. It's only 8 questions long. Not too bad and I have it completed already. I don't like to wait to do things. I want to do them and get it over with. LOL Unlike my husband who waited until Tuesday night to do his homework. I think this is going to scar him for life. LMBO Well let's see anything new to tell other than that, hmmmm nope! There's my entry, better get back to work. |
| OOOPS... |
Date Posted: 08-09-2005 at 08:37 AM |
| Well well well... I didn't realize I had missed a week. What was I thinking? Well tomorrow marks the half way point for PRIDE classes. I can't believe 5 weeks has gone by! J has to finish up his homework from last week tonight so it's done for tomorrow. I finished mine last Friday so I can relax and not freak out about getting it done. Nothing new to report I guess when it comes to our classes. We had about 20 people in our first class, but it's dwindled down to 12-15 now. I guess others have decided to go another direction. We've spent the last 2 classes in a different room for a very good cause. Our normal room actually has a ton of clothes, school supplies and backpacks around it for the kids. It's a really good sight to see that they are taking care of the kids that are in CPS care. Well last weekend I had my youngest 2 kids and my husband sick as ever. All three of them had strep throat. I was walking everywhere with a can of Lysol. Not sure if that really works, but hey it doesn't hurt to try. I told everyone I WON'T get sick so it's a matter of mind of matter. I washed more clothes and bed sheets than I care to over a 3 day period. OH ~ we lost our 2 feather babies last week. My oldest had 2 parakeets, one named Candi and one named Cosmo. Well my dog (Hunter) decide he needed to go hunting for parakeets I guess and now they are gone to the Rainbow bridge. I'm going with Momma on Thursday to get my neice's ears pierced for her 2nd birthday. I have also completed all of the school clothes shopping. We really got some great deals for my oldest. We found a pair of jeans at one of his favorite stores normally priced $50, but on sale for $16.99. Can you believe that? OK, enough rambling, guess I better go be productive. I'll keep ya posted.... |
| A light at the end of the tunnel |
Date Posted: 09-01-2005 at 02:21 PM |
| OK, so I'm really bad about posting in my journal, what can I say? Well we had session #8 last night. We have 2 more left. We're lucky with the fact that we have someone coming to our home to do the First Aid/CPR class. We couldn't have taken the class with everyone else because of J's work schedule. I will let you in on an irritation of mine. From the moment we started this journey into CPS we've been open to everyone about our intentions of adopting. Now, most of our class is the same way. They want to do straight adopt. The PRIDE classes are more geared towards fostering and I feel like they don't make enough of an effort towards adoption. I've done all the homework that's been asked of me and answered questions that I don't think has anything to do with our situation without any complaints. So why is it that it's starting to bother me now? Maybe I kept thinking that we'd be getting into the information about adoption later in the classes, but since we only have 2 classes left there's not much hope of that. I wonder if they are going to try to push fostering on us??? Not that there is anything wrong with it. I just don't think I could be up to fostering and having a full time job. I would love to foster if I was a stay-at-home mom, but unfortunately that's not the case. Anyway I guess I just needed to vent. I'll keep ya posted. Two more and one more step done!!! |
| Today is a new day?! |
Date Posted: 09-08-2005 at 06:28 AM |
| Well we had class #9 last night. One more and we can say "bye bye" to the long trips into Dallas. I can't tell you how nice it feels to know we made it through the classes. I learned a lot and already knew a lot, but it was enjoyable to talk with the others in our group. Out of 18 or 19 our class only dwindled down to an official count of 15. A couple of people have some classes to make up, but as of next Wednesday 9/14 we will officially be done with our PRIDE classes. YAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Our next step is the "home study", we went through one before, but it was for a step-parent adoption, so this one feels a little more intimidating. I guess it's just the intrusion of someone judging me and my family. (This too shall pass) Not sure how long this will take, but I'm ready to get it over with and out of the way. I'll keep ya posted. Till next week have a great day!! |
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