I am trying to convince a coworker of mine to buy our townhouse, so we can get outta dodge and live closer to work!
We’ve made an offer on home #3, but we haven’t heard back from the seller yet…they wanted us to pay more than we originally offered, but it’s a buyer’s market. They should just be dancing in the streets they have a contract! So, we’ll see how it goes, if they turn us down, we’ll just find something else. A lot of houses for sale.
Just feels like life has ground to a halt after being breakneck speed for a while. We were so gung ho about adoption paperwork and trying to hurry, and turning 30 this year didn’t help.
We’re going to get stuff taken care of with moving and then worry about the adoption paperwork. I know it will come together, but it’s just kind of frustrating. It seems like all good things come with mountains of paperwork.
On another note, our little girl cat, India, had to get a couple of stitches on her neck from a mysterious wound. In the examining room, she was very sweet and cuddly with the doctor and his assistant. They didn’t think it would be a big deal to throw in a couple stitches. I asked the doctor if he needed help, and he said no. He and 1 other assistant took her in the back room to do the stitches. I heard India yelling fit to be tied, and then I heard one of the assistants yell to the gal working at the front desk “Suzie, can you please help us??!!” It took 3 of them to hold her down, muzzle her, and put two stiches in her neck. She only weighs 6 pounds, but she can sure put up a fight. When the doctor brought her back to the back room, he explained that she was fine until she saw another cat back there, and then she was ready to tear the cat apart, which then made it harder to do the stitches. He suggested we keep her inside to keep her from fighting. Well, we’ll try.
My hubby tagged me to post 8 random facts about myself and to tag 6 other people. I don’t feel like tagging specific folks, but if you feel like posting 8 random facts about yourself, let me know! Shoot me a comment.
1. I have two tattoos. One on my left lower calf, one on my right upper thigh
2. I am a natural blonde but I’ve been recently coloring my hair red
3. I am addicted to coffee
4. I have been having a better time OVERALL dealing with the infertility thing (no outbursts of anger, crying, or being unable to go to baby showers) but I still have my moments.
5. For the first time in my life I’m having a difficult time sleeping
6. My favorite tv shows are “Heroes” and “Mythbusters”
7. I am ready for a vacation to Hawaii
8. Selfishly, I really want a laptop and be able to work from home
I remember when I was a kid and I would go to my Grandma Eissens house and she had a plaque with “Footprints” on it. When I was little, I completely didn’t get it. I was like “why in the world was God carrying a guy on a beach? Were they surfing together?”
Whenever I see a similar plaque or card like it, be it in a store or in someone’s home, I remember that my Grandma had it. It hung on a small wall in her trailer, by her favorite LazyBoy armchair.
I wish I had that plaque of hers. I don’t have that, but I do have a Bible she owned. It’s a HUGE guideposts parallel Bible, with 4 versions of the Bible that you can look over at once. That Bible has been a great source of comfort, to think I am reading the same Bible, the same verses, that my Grandma probably read.
My mom was her daughter, and my mom is buried next to her in a small cemetery in Thomson, Illinois. They will have matching gravetones, pink, with her name, date of birth and death, and “Mother of Jessica, Julie, John & Jeff” written on the back. It’s been surreal and difficult to make lots of adult decisions all at once (I will have driven back to Illinois from Kansas 3 times since June 11th to handle family business), but God has given little encouragements along the way. Cards from people I haven’t talked to in years, nice conversations with friends that I’ve missed, and flowers from friends and family. I have also loved being more involved with my siblings and seeing them more often - I let it go too long between visits.
So, among all the unexpected pain and grief good things have been happening. We’re plugging forward on buying a house (we made another offer this week, and we’re expecting a counter offer from the seller), but no offers on our house yet. Right now, the adoption paperwork is on hold. We just don’t have the time with all the additional paperwork and responsibilities after my mom’s death. Her passing away was unexpected - she passed away in her sleep from a previously unknown heart condition.
Posts may be scattered and infrequent for a while, but hopefully in August we will have a new house and can get moving forward on adoption again.
Something that was so sweet, we found a card among mom’s belongings in her room. We had just begun telling her that we were adopting. We opened the card, and it played “Baby, Baby” by Amy Grant, and it was signed “Love, Grandma Gloria.” That has been the hardest thing for me and my husband, too, that she was looking forward to being a Grandma and it didn’t happen before she passed away. That has been the roughest on us.
