Officially Waiting

Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  We passed our home safety inspection last Friday, our home study was submitted on Monday, and we are officially a family in waiting!  I just put the finishing touches on our profile books and ordered them as well.  So hopefully, we will be ready when the opportunity knocks.  We did get another scenario yesterday for a young girl who is due at the end of the month.  It was the cleanest scenario we have seen (no drug/alcohol exposure, no major family medical issues), but the mom has already decided she is going to parent.  Of course, we had excited/panic mode for a couple of hours, but settled down rather quickly once we realized it was a long shot.  Our social worker told us she was leaning toward parenting, and with such a clean scenario, we figured she would have lots of profiles to choose from.  So now we can say we have lived through our first "mind change." 

It amazes me how perfectly orchestrated everything has to be to fall into place.  The scenario has to be appealing to us to tell the agency to show our profile.  Our short profile has to be appealing enough for the expectant mom to want to see our long profile.  And our long profile has to have something in it that makes her say, "That's the people who are supposed to raise my baby!"  I just have to keep reminding myself that every time we get "turned down" it is actually a good thing.  OUR perfect baby is out there.  And we are getting closer and closer to him/her.  And it will happen, just the way God intends it to.

What else is going on...we are still LOVING being HOME!!!  But that has brought a few issues as well.  Mr. Nigel has decided that it is more fun to pee on the new carpet than in his litter box.  So Mr. Nigel is now confined to the basement until Mr. Nigel can change his behavior.  I don't think he has a UTI, he will pee in the box when he is in the basement.  I think he is stressed/miffed about all of the moving/changes to the house and this is just his way of dealing with it.  Since I'm not a kitty psychologist, I don't know how to fix it, I'm hoping he can fix it himself.  Perhaps he should start a blog, it has worked wonders for me.  Speaking of which, with the holidays fast approaching, it is very easy for me to start getting a little blue.  So I have decided to do an annual Thanksgiving post of all of the wonderful blessings I do have to help direct my thoughts to happier places.  So stay tuned for that...

My hours have ramped up again at job #2, which means I'm back to being tired all of the time and having no life again.  And I think I'm starting to get sick.  Gus is still plugging away at projects at the house, and working his two jobs.  And Noah is mad that I put his toys in a box.  So that is the update on everyone at our house.  Oh, and by the way...I'm considering us expectant parents now.  And the coolest part is, it could happen at ANY time now.  Gus if you are reading this...just breath. :)