December 11, 2007

Well, I talked to the SC office, and they have our records, and have assigned us to a case worker. Yay! Apparently, though it did take them a couple months to get it done, the biggest problem was that when we gave our change of address and phone number to the person in NY, she changed it in their office rolodex but not in the computer directory, so the SC office has been trying to call us on a discontinued phone number. Siiiiigh. She also told me that our case worker has been out somewhat severely ill the last couple of days, so when she's better and back on her case load, we should be hearing from her. So this is good.Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers.

December 10, 2007

Sorry it's been a while. I'm going to rant for a minute, because I'm pissed. We had only one short meeting left in NY for our homestudy to be approved when Lanse lost his job. We moved to SC, with the full assurances of the NY people that we could transfer things as soon as we "got settled". So, I called the NY office -and- the SC office the last week of July, and was told they'd call me back as soon as the director talked to the other director. When I didn't hear anything, I called again the second week of August. And again the third week of September. And the first week of October. NO ONE HAS CALLED US OR (I assume) TRANSFERRED OUR RECORDS. Keep in mind that I'm talking directly to the directors of the state offices, not just a secretary.

And we just got a letter - TO THE ADDRESS WE HAVEN'T LIVED AT IN SIX MONTHS - telling us that the agency newsletter, which we get as long as we're involved with the agency, will stop arriving unless we send them a donation.

THEY FREAKING WROTE US OFF! AFTER CALLING EVERY MONTH FOR SIX. FREAKING. MONTHS.

I am severely incensed. Of course, I get all riled up after business hours. *sigh* I hope I can rile myself up again tomorrow afternoon when I can call and yell at them.

I don't know whether or not to be just done with them. It could either be one of those things where we're supposed to fight for it, (I've heard that a -lot- of agencies depend on the adopting families to keep on top of things), or if God's trying to tell us to do something else, agency-wise. I'm not willing to give up kids yet. So I dunno. I give them ONE more phone call, in which I give time and date of all my other phone calls, and see if anything happens by the end of the week. Possibly.

Pray for wisdom for us, and God opening our eyes to His will.

June 16, 2007

We accepted the job in Charleston. We're moving to SC! And, we have three weeks to do it; he starts work on the 9th of July. *gaaaaaaaaaahhhh!*

(In case it's not been clear, the adoption's kinda been on hold until we figure out what's going on.)

April 21, 2007: The Day the Plans Changed

For those of you who do not yet know, all telecommuting positions at Bio-Logic were terminated yesterday at noon, without warning. So Lanse is job-hunting, as will I be after school in June. We will also be trying to figure out what to do with the fact that the company owns (and wants back) nearly all of his computer stuff, including what he's been using for his personal computer, and we haven't budgeted for our land line or our cable modem. Pick an emotion, I've felt it in the last 24 hours. Even some happy ones. But right now I'm depressed, and trying to plan a responsible dinner when all that sounds good is drowning in cheetos.

April 6, 2007

-- We met a laywer yesterday to get our will done. He kinda skeeved me out, but I don't know if it's cuz he's actually skeevy, or if it's just cuz he's a laywer. *heh*
-- We have to do one more (new) fingerprinting card, and our bloodwork. We're sick again, so now the bloodwork is legitimately on hold, instead of all those months when we just forgot. *frustrated sigh* When the will is done, we schedule our last meeting, and VIOLA! (viola? of course! music always has a place!) We just wait around to be approved, and we can get on with the having kids thing.