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I am a Christian, a wife, and a pharmacist. My husband and I are. . . well. . . just trying to become parents. We thought we were going to adopt, but it looks like God has a different plan for us!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

National Adoption Awareness Month



November is National Adoption Awareness Month. 

If you'd like more information on how to foster or adopt a child, please see the links on the right side of this page.  The Dave Thomas Foundation has excellent information on how your family can help a child waiting for a home.  Here are some facts about foster care:

•Children enter the foster care system through no fault of their own. As victims of abuse, neglect and/or abandonment, they are removed from their home because their birth family is unable or unwilling to provide a safe environment for them.

•More than 129,000 children in the U.S. foster care system are available for adoption. Their parent’s legal rights have been permanently terminated and children are left without a family.

•Children often wait five or more years to be adopted, can move three or more times in foster care and are frequently separated from siblings. More than half of these children are nine years of age or older.

•Each year, more than 20,000 children available for adoption turn 18 and leave the foster care system without a family.

•Adopting from foster care is affordable. Most child welfare agencies cover the costs of home studies and court fees, and provide post-adoption subsidies. Thousands of employers offer benefits for employees who adopt and adoption tax credits are available to most families.

•Every child is adoptable. Many children in foster care have special needs. All of them deserve the change to grow up in a safe, loving, permanent home. Post-adoption resources are available.

•Adopting from foster care is permanent. Once a child is adopted out of foster care, the birth parents cannot attempt to claim them or fight in court for their return.
 
Every child deserves a family.

Monday, November 2, 2009

4 months. . .

I haven't posted in a while since there's been no real activity on the adoption front.  But that doesn't mean I've been up to nuthin'!!

Just got back from a week-long beach getaway to Siesta Key, Florida, with my crazy Korean friend S.  She is such a trip to travel with!  We don't get to see each other too often as she lives in Phoenix, but we try to travel somewhere once a year.  Siesta Key was adorable.  It's a little island off the coast near Sarasota and has this cool, "tucked away" feel.  Once you cross the bridge, it's like being on a little tropical island.  You can practically hear the Jimmy Buffett soundtrack in the background!  We ate lots of fish and Indian food (they actually had a really good Indian place right over the bridge) and sat on the beach.  It was so nice to get away for a little bit.

I'm also the proud (addicted) owner of a new iPhone 3Gs!  I can't believe I lived without his thing for so long!!!  The apps are so cool and the e-mail features are highly functional.  This device is just light-years beyond my trusty old Sidekick.  I felt bad leaving T-Mobile after 10+ years, but their hardware just doesn't compete.  I'm practically attached to the thing!  It actually came in handy in FL because the Google Maps and Yelp app made it so easy to find restaurants and shops.

I also just installed a new, 500GB, external hard drive I picked up at Costco for $69.  My old hard drive is starting to sound wheezy and doesn't always connect on start-up, so I'm trying to prevent data-loss heartbreak before it happens.  With all this technology, I feel soooo 21st century!!

My lust for all things baby and nursery seems to have died off kind of suddenly.  The nursery is almost done - I'm just waiting for the nightstand, which got held up in shipping, to arrive sometime this week or next.  Once that's in, I'll put down the little shag rug I got for the room and we'll be done.  I have a small handful of items left on the stockpile list, but nothing I need immediately.  I am, however, lusting for two other things!  I really would like a new camera, as our old Kodak digital is pathetic.  I think the iPhone actually has a better camera on it.  I'd lurrrve a digital SLR, but they are so expensive!!  Costco has some nice packages, and I'm hoping prices will come down before Christmas.  My other wishlist item is an adapter for the iPhone for my car.  I don't really want a new stereo deck, just one of those adapters that allows you to plug the phone in to an auxiliary jack on the system. 

Can you tell I'm addicted to the iPhone??????