Updates...

OK...I'm sorry that I've not been on for a while, things have been pretty hectic around here. So, here's an update of life in general...the adoption, work, family and such.

Well, first off...as many of you know, our agency has closed on us. We are currently in the process of working with our lawyer to bring a lawsuit into play and try and get our money back. Commonwealth Adoptions had 3 insurance companies and policies that they were working with, so we've contacted all 3 to try and get our money back. We've heard from 2 of them with a denial (of course) and we're just waiting now for our 3rd denial.

I will say that this experience sure makes you leery of who to trust and shows who is supportive on this whole thing and who isn't. We've had some people already take on the attitude of, "oh well, guess you guys just weren't meant to be parents."...nice eh? Well, I'm trying to let it all roll off of my back...but it's hard so my stress level has definitely elevated.

Number two, dad is doing great! He got great news the other day that he will be done with his chemotherapy in early December as opposed to the end of January. YEAH!!!!!! This is a great thing as I think he's getting tired of doing this stuff...he hasn't had much in the way of side effects (except feet and hands hurting, a few blood clots, etc...), so all in all I think it's been a relatively smoother experience than was initially anticipated. We're planning a party for him...an "end of Chemo." party for the beginning of December..so that will be fun!

Lets see...home life is touch and go. Bill and I have had our good days and our bad days of course. This whole adoption thing has pretty much put us at a high stress limit and we're also POSSIBLY working with a surrogate. We're not sure where things stand with her as of yet because she's been having a couple health issues and the last thing we want to do is put her through anything or make her feel like she has to just for us. Her health comes first in my book...so, the baby thing is all up in the air right now. Though I would LOVE a baby, I'm not willing to keep letting it kill me like this. I feel like I'm dying a slow painful death or something.....

So, anyway, that's really it. Work is going good. Bill's working 2 jobs still to my 1. I'm looking at starting my Masters program hopefully in the next school year for either Physician Assistant or RN (a few colleges have the accelerated BSN~ Bachelors of Science in Nursing degree so I may do that). Bill's still undecided with what he's going on for. Either way, we will both be graduating finally from U of M in the Spring!!!!!!

So that's it for the time being. I'll be back on here as soon as I hear some more news!
Take care and thanks for following our lives...
Gina