Goodbye, Facebook!

It was a difficult decision, but at the behest of my husband, I deactivated my Facebook recently. Every time I go on Facebook and see posts of a new pregnancy announcement, a new preggo belly pic and some newborn of a wife of a friend of Daniel (there have been several this month), I cry. I want to stop crying. I'm tired of it. Losing Facebook is a step towards stopping the crying, I think.

So hurray to not being pregnant! Ugh. Instead I need to check on Daniel's two clearances from Illinois and Pennsylvania that have STILL not come back after a month of waiting. I also needed to get an HIV test last week, after I was told repeatedly that the HIV test was optional. Well, it wasn't! I also spent some time during the home study interview explaining to the social worker some uncomfortable background history with my mom. I kept thinking, this does not mean that I will be a bad parent, and why are we even talking about this? It was so long ago!!! Shouldn't we be talking about how wonderful I am and how I want a baby more than anything in this world and will fly all the way to Ethiopia twice to get it?? Why don't they ask people before they have sex whether THEY have had any history of abuse in their families? Another funny question: Have you ever committed a crime which, at the time you committed it, you were not aware that it was a crime but now know it was a crime, and you may not have ever been convicted for it? What? My head is spinning.

So the home study went okay other than that, and our social worker is getting it written over the next two weeks. So the things we are missing from our dossier are: DANIEL'S CLEARANCES, HIV TEST RESULTS, COMPLETION OF OUR 10TH PARENTING CLASS on December 14th. As soon as those are squared away, we can turn it in, get it approved, and get on a wait list.

On another note, I finished two quilts recently: One for Kate and another for me. I've also been cooking a lot lately and will post some recipes soon.