Monthly Archives May 2009

“We went to the ER tonight.”  Again.

Our day was going along just fine.  I scrubbed down the house in the morning, finishing just in time to get to my OB appointment where I found out that I had passed my glucose test and didn’t need to get the dreaded three hour one!  I also got a shot…in a place that I didn’t expect them to give me one!  Something to do with my blood type and the baby’s not meshing well.

Anyways, after that appointment, I decided to run a few errands so we could have dinner tonight and even breakfast for tomorrow.  As I was scouring Big Lots for cereal and fruit snacks, suddenly I saw my evening plans change right before my eyes.

I really don’t know how it happened.  I think she was wandering away, so I automatically told her to come back...

Our little Eddy turned 3 on Sunday.  Unlike most parents, for us, her birthday isn’t a time to remember the day she was born, how little she was, and how much she’s grown now.  We have a different day to remember meeting her for the first time (September 11).  But like most parents, her birthday is a day to celebrate her life and to be so thankful that she was born.  And, I couldn’t help but think throughout that day that turning three was a milestone of leaving behind all that happened to her last year, and the chance to start a whole new year of life in a loving home.

I did spend some time thinking about where I was three years ago.  Still living in WA, we were busy preparing for Adam and Erika’s wedding, and packing to move down to CA a month later...

I realize that I never got to post about our time in court for Eddy’s big hearing a few weeks ago.  It all seemed so important and interesting back then, but now that its been a few weeks, and that we’ve had new developments in the case, it hardly seems worth it to write about.

The adoption process is ridiculously long.  No one goes into an adoption thinking that this is going to be easy, especially if you are doing foster care and the child was placed in your home the day they were removed from their biological one.  I understand that there is a lot of injustice out there for biological parents, and that sometimes “the system” doesn’t work fairly, but I also feel like all of those Lifetime Original Movies out there where the mom is all alone in the world because no one is advocating fo...