One Day At A Time

Thought I'd take a couple minutes and give you the story. I know some of you are anxious to hear it.

It all started on Tuesday, November 3rd. After school I was showing my friend my new cell phone (it's a really cool touch phone with a slide out keyboard.) At which point I realized I had a voicemail. I thought it was rather odd since I had just got the phone the day before. I call, and it's my friend Shari. Shari was the assistant manager of the toy store I worked at in high school. Her sister is actually the same age as I am, but we are friends non-the-less. Her message gave me every phone number I could possibly reach her at and was telling me that she needed to talk to me as soon as possible. So, I write the numbers down and begin calling. I reach her at the first number I try. No small talk, she cut right to the chase, "Laura, I don't know if you know this or not but I work at an OBGYN and we have a patient who wants her baby to go to a good home." I think my chin hit the floor! "I've been reading you on Facebook and following your blog. I know you have run into the financial piece of things, but was wondering if you were still interested?" Am I still interested!?!? HELL YEAH I AM!!! That's not exactly what I said, but it sounds good. So we went that Friday to meet with the doctor and his wife. They decided that we would be suitable parents and let us know that all they can do is recommend us to the mother. Last week we worked on obtaining an attorney and found a WHOLE lot of information out that we didn't know. We have to have a homestudy done, the mother has to wait 72 hours before relinquishing her rights (DH thinks), and we have to stay in the state where we are adopting him from for at least two weeks. Oh and the mother has to initiate the legal process by contacting the lawyer. At the end of last week we find out that she contacted the lawyer. Now we have to get one for ourselves. Yesterday the hubby was told by the mother's lawyer that we should create an adoption portfolio. So, at the moment that is what I'm trying to accomplish. Along with getting the baby's room set up, so we can take pictures to include in the portfolio. Also, finding someone to do a home study in less that 5 weeks is very tough. It makes me very very nervous. The baby is scheduled to be born Dec. 23 and it is a he. I will try to be better at keeping my blog up to date on the goings on. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers!! They are greatly appreciated!

Our baby is scheduled to enter this world and our lives on Dec. 23rd! He will be the best Christmas present in the entire world!

You have to give it to God! It is his plan and only he knows what is to come. You have to trust and believe in him.

Did I really see that!?!? On my way to work Thursday morning I pulled up to a red light and next to me was a woman in a car with a baby in the back seat. In her hand was a cigarette!!! Why don't people realize or listen to the warnings about the harmful effects of cigarettes and second hand smoke?

This morning I went to church and I left there humbled. Today was the start of a new series at church. It is titled "Bring the Love." Today's service was about bringing the love to the hungry. I walked away from church humbled because I learned more than just giving to the hungry, but learned about myself. I have been whining and complaining about not having children, not being able to have my own children, and not having money to adopt, among other complaints. Today made me realize that I need to stop complaining and stop being ungrateful because what I do have, many people do not. The pastor said a couple things that we wrote in our notes that I can apply not only to giving, but also to my life and having children. 1. God provides for His endeavors. 2. The size of your God is the size of your dreams. 3. God take the impossible and produces opportunities. What do I need to do? I need to refocus my life and put God at the center of it. I have been hopeless and negative about our financial situation and adopting. Probably because I haven't been Christ centered. As far as giving goes, I came home from church and cleaned out the cupboards. The hubby and I have more than what we need. Therefore, I am going to donate what we don't need. My church is taking a collection on Nov. 22, but I will be in Ohio that weekend. So, I'm going to take the box of food to school and give it to the guidance counselor and ask her pass it on to a family who may need it.

That's right, that's what one of my students said to me this week. And you can bet my response was, "Get out of my room right now. You do not talk to me like that. You can walk your butt up to the office right now!" Oh yeah! That's what I said. I have a few student who are very trying. Just last week I had a student walk away from me and out of the building when I was speaking to him (we were in the community, bowling.) And again, you can bet I didn't let him disrespect me like that. I followed his butt outside and let him have it! The sea of kids (maybe 20) who were waiting for the bus to come, spread. I think they were all shocked at my reaction. They of course didn't know what was going on, but new I was not happy. Work has been crazy. Right now I feel like my time and energy that I put into my classroom is unnoticed and unappreciated. The other day I said I was done. I'm done putting in extra energy and time, especially if people like my principal are going to complain about the length of my IEP meetings, but doesn't even notice all the extra time and effort I put into the meeting. BUT, where was I today when school was closed because of fog? You got it, in my classroom working. I know that some day one of my students will look back on their education and appreciate all that I've done for them. I know that God appreciates the time and effort I put into my classroom and students. I'm not a 7:25-3:15 teacher. It's more like 7:00 - 5, 6, 7, 8, and sometimes 9. I do the best that I can do to provide my students a good education and try to help them the best way I know how.

So, yeah..... What shall I blog about now? I ate an apple today! It tasted so good. It's been a while since I've eaten an apple. Holy cow!!! It was snowing this morning on my way to work. I say if it's going to snow, it needs to snow enough to delay or cancel snow. To bad the ground is still too warm. The para. who works in my room has been gone all week and let me tell you. I am so far behind on my grading. This really has mad me realize how much I appreciate her being there. I think I need to get her flowers and a card to welcome her back.