http://blog.salsburygallery.com A way for friends and family to watch as we "jump over the edge" to adoption! Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:16:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I realized I hadn't made any 2009 lists...so here we go! A lot of these books I read as part of my work's book club- fun group of folks. here's to hoping 2010 gets less crazy so I get to participate more!! titles: Extremely loud & incredibly close Water for Elephants The Book Thief pillars ... http://blog.salsburygallery.com/2010/01/10/best-books-i-read-2009/ Tonight was our first small group with members of our new church, Olathe Bible. Everyone was very nice and next week will be the luncheon where we learn more about the Church and if we want to join. I think that we will, unless something strange comes up. Big churches ... http://blog.salsburygallery.com/2010/01/10/joshys-personality/ Feel like the evil bedtime Nazi. Josh has to sleep in his own bed or I'm going to lose my mind and be bruised all over; he's lately gotten into pulling my hair and kicking me. Spent 2:30am till now comforting him in his room and he's asleep in his ... http://blog.salsburygallery.com/2009/12/11/josh-bedtime/ Eileen Huffman passed away on December 1st. Donald and I babysat their kids quite a bit when we were first married. Take a while to read the most recent posts on the site; Scott loved his wife very much. I hope as Donald and I grow old and face these ... http://blog.salsburygallery.com/2009/12/06/current-state-of-events/ There are things I think of & thoughts I have that I wonder if it's appropriate or not to share. Friends and family read this blog, and I worry about being offensive. However, I am amazed by how infertility is such a mind £€%+ that I have to share my ... http://blog.salsburygallery.com/2009/11/03/jane-austen-book-club-contains-movie-spoilers/ We're in the middle of consolidating our debt in an effort to prepare for adoption #2. Not sure when we'll actually START the process, but we need to save more money to get prepared for it.  Joshua's adoption was fairly straightforward without any bumps in the process, but we could ... http://blog.salsburygallery.com/2009/10/17/when-to-adopt-again/ I am not sure what exactly is going on, but a biological father is contesting the adoption process of a family we know. This just makes me ill; during the pregnancy, he never supported the mother, and the mother picked this couple to parent her child. This child has been ... http://blog.salsburygallery.com/2009/10/15/work-couple-adoption-stalled/ Since Wed things have been difficult. I have had the most excruciating pain in my back; yesterday it was starting to feel better then today at church we left early because my legs and feet were going numb. We felt badly because this was the first time to Gardner Fellowship ... http://blog.salsburygallery.com/2009/10/04/pain/ Another couple from work that I've helped and mentored through the adoption process is in line to adopt a baby due 10/10/09. I am hopeful this goes through. Before we adopted Josh, we had some potential matches, but they have had potential matches come close to working out and then ... http://blog.salsburygallery.com/2009/09/26/2nd-work-couple-adopting/ I am so excited I could burst. A friend of mine from work that I've been mentoring through her adoption process was matched with their little boy. He was born earlier today - it just happens to be the anniversary of Donald and mines first date!! It's so exciting and gratifying ... http://blog.salsburygallery.com/2009/07/16/excited-for-friends/