We are crazy.

The Glenns can't ever do anything the easy way.  When we had Benson we both started new jobs.  I guess I am a creature of habit.  While we are trying to gather everything we need for the adoption/home study paperwork, I am excited to announce I will be embarking on an entirely different new venture.

I really enjoy being an accountant.  Call me a nerd, but I like the numbers and I like the tax returns.  What I do not enjoy one bit is tax season.  Working 55+ hours a week for four months straight with a toddler made me feel like the worst mother alive.  This year Benson was old enough to voice his opinion of me being away so much and I couldn't take the puffed out lip and crying anymore.  So I finally did something about it!

I am officially the new Jr. Business Analyst for Hilmar Cheese Company.  I start a week from today.  I am definitely nervous, but more excited to take on the new role!

I don't really have any news on the adoption front.  We are still just swimming in paperwork trying to get every little thing we need.  This is definitely a lesson in patience!

Homestudy

Our homestudy is Monday.  I am so anxious to get this first step over with and be closer to the end.  Please pray for us that we don't say something stupid and that Benson doesn't act like a heathen ;).

Here is a glimpse into our life for the past two weeks:

 

 

That is maybe half of the paperwork just for the homestudy.  I'm sure the agency is going to require even more.  We are going to be swimming in papers before the end.

 

Also everyone is cordially invited to a housecleaning party at 1212 Rock Island Sunday afternoon. ;)

 

We hope everyone has a very blessed weekend!

Windows or Doors?

I'm sure you've all heard the quote, "When God closes a door he opens a window."   It is sometimes hard for me to see the window past the door.  I often question if there is a window at all.

Recently, we definitely hit a door.  Right after my previous post, I received some news that we weren't expecting.  The "yes" we had gotten on the Ethiopia program turned into a "no."  It honestly felt like getting punched in the stomach.  We jumped whole heartedly into something expecting the best to only get the worst.

We spent the next couple of weeks processing and trying to figure out where we went wrong.  We felt so called to do something that was no longer an option.  Needless to say, we were extremely confused and didn't know what to do next.  We had gotten some information on a program called Domestic Cross Cultural adoption that we were researching and exploring.  In a nutshell it is a domestic adoption but the baby will be a different race than we are.  It works like most domestic adoptions in that the birth mother picks us and we will meet her at the hospital and bring the baby straight home from there.  The agency works with moms that don't have as big of a "pool" of adopting parents to choose from.  She said there is a big need for families that want to adopt African American or bi-racial kiddos.  Well we fit the bill so to speak.  We aren't doing what we originally thought, but we are still going to get to be parents again to a baby who needs us.  We are really excited to start a new process!

So, to answer my own question: window.  It's ALWAYS windows.