Seriously, time flies. It seems it flies faster as I age. I once had someone tell me that was because life is like a fraction, when you are two, one year is half your life which makes it seem relatively long, but by the time you're 30, each year is just 1/30 of you life, which relatively seems shorter. Relativity really is amazing, but I digress. I began today because it's only been 5 days since I wrote and I have so much news!!
First, on Sunday, which started out awfully (from a migraine), ended up fabulous! Once my headache started to subside, Tom and I decided to go run some errands and look at some rocking chairs. Tom really wanted to be able to try it before he bought it, and who could blame him?!
So, we went to Babies'r'us and tried their gliders. They had two we liked, one that was on a major sale ($150 off), that we really liked. It seemed a bit high off the ground for short me, but it works well enough. After this we drove ALL over town trying to find other places with baby furniture and rockers, but no one else seemed to keep anything in stock (bummer).
But our travels took us to a local shop called Mr. Mattress (where we bought our current mattress and master bedroom furniture). They didn't have anything in store, but showed us a catalog. Well, leave it to my hubby, the eternal chatter, to chat it up with the owner's wife who was helping us, about our quest and the fact we were adopting, etc, etc. Anyway, so while we were looking at the catalog, she decided to go looking on craigslist because she was sure she had seen a good deal on some baby furniture. Sure enough, a basically non-used crib, with mattress, and bumpers (which we knew we wouldn't use) for super cheap.
We called the guy and long story short, because he couldn't bare to let his child cry herself to sleep, we got a basically brand new crib and mattress for about half price of what we would of paid in stores. Awesome!
We also later ended up ordering that rocker and got an additional $25 off since we ordered it online (free shipping to store) and are just waiting for it to arrive to pick it up!
It doesn't even end there! Shocking, I know! We finally got word that we were assigned to a local non-profit for the adoption side of things and completed and turned around our first set of paperwork post-haste. We are working on their stage two, which is basically like a repeat of all the stuff we did for our foster care application, but with a different logo. Sucks to have to do everything twice, but at least we are moving forward. :)
We have our pre-adoption PRIDE training this Saturday are getting the baby bedding Sunday (plus some free baby stuff from a friend), and will begin our foster care PRIDE training first week of August! From what felt like such a slow start, we are really picking up some traction. It feels amazing. :D
Well, I think that is about it, and probably more than enough. :) Talk to ya soon!
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