Nerdvana

Oh hey look an update! So we’ve been sitting around on pins and needles at the Griffin house waiting for news from Family Services regaurding our status as foster parents. We’ve jumped through all the hoops, provided all the information, been poked and prodded inside and out, and now it’s time to wait.

Not much has been going here as of late. I’ve begun working solely from home in preparation for the coming kids and because my dog was having severe health problems. Unfortunately my dog passed away last week and it pretty much shattered our world. The surprising thing is that it’s hit our other dog Gracy the hardest. It’s sad to see her moping around the house. When she goes outside she goes out to the back porch looking out into the yard obviously looking for Bindi. She goes out into the yard to go potty and comes right back in. This is a dog that LIVES for the outside. We’d open the door and she run out, do her business and then frollic on the lawn and lay out in the sun. She doesn’t do that anymore and it worries me. I’m sure it will pass but in the meantime it kills us to see her like this.

Our lives are pretty much on hold while we are waiting to be licensed. We really can’t make any plans for the distant future and things need to remain stable. We are shooting to go to DragonCon next month but if we have a kid by then we’ll have to scrap it. It’s totally worth it but right now everything is in a lull. I’m taking the advice of friends who have recently become parents and using the time to do things I won’t have time for when the kids are here. Expect a flood here when stuff does start to happen. In the mean time we’ll keep chugging along.

Our social calendar this month has been CRAZY with weddings, get togethers, events, etc. We haven’t really had a “free weekend” in a month but it helps pass the time.