I had visions of sharing stories of how wonderful our weekend away was.
Honestly, it was great. It was so nice to see our friend’s new home, to enjoy their great hospitality, to go for a beautiful evening walk, and to visit with an amazingly inspirational blogger friend.
But, would I do it again? No, not anytime soon.
Baby MPB did not handle the drive there well. Our drive was 4 hours longer then it would have been before Baby MPB. Listening to a baby scream inconsolably is never fun.
Baby MPB did not sleep well at all. He’s pushing through another tooth which now means we are in for a string of bad nights. Which means no-one in the house slept well, I felt so bad for our friends. Again, listening to a baby scream inconsolably is never fun.
Baby MPB did not handle the drive home well. See above for the explanation.
Then today, while driving with potential client, my car got a flat tire. On a 6 lane highway. Ya, not fun. And while getting my flat tire repaired it was determined that it was time for all new tires (we knew this was coming but thought we had another month or two). Then, upon inspection, my rear breaks were at 2% – clearly not safe. So, $1300 later, my car should be in working order tomorrow.
Then, I realized I managed to forget my books at our meeting so I had to find a way to get back to get them. Not an easy feat without my own car.
And then, my computer died. As in, never going to work again, not worth the money to fix. And being self-employed we have no choice but to fix the problem immediately or lose income – another $800 bill. Needless to say the rest of my day/evening was spent trying to get the new computer up and running.
So, I fully acknowledge that the non-driving days of our weekend away were great. But, right now I seem more focused on the fact that the nights were miserable, the driving days were horrible and my return to work today went rather poorly.
I’m not saying we’ll never go away again. In fact, I suspect we’ll do it sooner then either of us expect because the good parts of this weekend will be what we remember in 6 months time.
But all this said, if there is a god out there, please, make this teething pain stop. I need sleep again. And Baby MPB could probably do without the pain!
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I feel like I’m due for an adoption process update.
As per normal the adoption process causes me nothing but stress and anxiety.
Except….when our lawyer said that possible unknown birth father rights weren’t terminated. Then, I had a mini-meltdown on the phone. Thankfully, he realized what he said and took the time to talk me off the ledge and re-explained what he said in much better language. What he meant to say is that the paperwork is actually confirming that the possible known birth father rights were voluntarily terminated and that the state’s law automatically terminates any other unknown birth father’s rights after 30 days. So, clearly, we are passed the 30 day mark and no-one can try to claim Baby MPB.
Anyways, other then that one minor heart-attack inducing hiccup ,the adoption finalization stuff doesn’t really get to me. Thankfully.
We have all the adoption costs tallied, all the paperwork signed and submitted, and all our agencies and lawyers have also completed their necessary paperwork. So, as of now all our paperwork has been submitted to the courts! Now, we just wait for a court date for the adoption finalization. We have no idea when the date will be, it could be anytime in the next 2ish months, 4ish months, or 6ish months or potentially even longer for all we know. (We are told the family court’s priority is emergency situations where children are at risk. Which means we are not a priority and so we wait, which makes sense in my mind).
In all likelihood we wont be required to travel for the adoption finalization as our lawyers will represent us. But, I’m trying to convince Mr. MPB we should attend – to be present at the finalization would be pretty amazing. Somehow I think it would be a beautiful way to end this story of becoming a family. To actually stand before the judge just seems more…..I don’t know the right word….but it sounds like a much more amazing experience then having our lawyer call us afterwards and say it’s done.
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