Tuesday, November 3, 2009

big changes

this will be our last blog post before brian and i become parents--foster parents that is. but parents nonetheless if you have a child living with you full time. the goal is that this will turn into an adoption 6-8 months down the road. so, big changes.

the boy who is moving in with us, william, is 7 and in the 1st grade. for now i will be driving him over to the current elementary school he's been going to, which is about 2 miles away. but, after a few months or so, we'll transition him over into the elementary school that's just a block or two over (ie he can walk).

we have been spending time with william off-and-on since june. so this has been a slow transition, but that has worked out well for us. i, especially, needed time to make sure i could make this work. sometimes things come slowly to me.

anyway, after about 8.5 years of marriage, b and i will finally have a little (although not so little) kiddo in the house. so life goes.

we can't post pictures of him online, so don't expect to see any pictures of him on our blog. that's a bummer, but it's a reasonable rule (law?) that the state has set up. if you want to see a picture of him, you can email one of us and we'll send you one.

11 comments:

Kimberly Porter said...

Congratulations to you two! That IS such a big change and a wonderful one. I wish you all the best with your new adjustments.

The Moyers said...

Congratulations! We are very happy for you. Good luck!

Just Katy said...

Hurray! Congratulations! I'm sure will be a wonderful family. I'm soo happy for ya'll.

And June to now is a very quick time to become a parent. The rest of us get about 9 months to warm up to the idea. So you're a lot faster at it than you give yourself credit for.

Just Katy said...

I hope we get to meet him come Christmas!

Jon and Becky said...

Wow. A 7-year-old. I definitely want to see this kid and get the details. Does he like home-grown mushrooms and birds?

eNJay & B said...

well he does like birds (how could you not?), but so far he doesn't like mushrooms. but then again he's never had lovingly-grown roberts mushrooms. after eating one shaggy inkcap, we could convince him of the merits of mushrooms.

Ann said...

Wow. We'll have to have all three of you over for some Wii and pizza or something. You guys are so good and brave to take this on.

Elysa said...

Congratulations! Good luck with this big change. You are doing a wonderful thing. You also get to have a kid and sleep through the night off the bat! We will be thinking of you!

Karolyn said...

Congratulations. You guys are amazing people. William is older than Mila, but they are in the same grade. We'd love to meet him the next time we are in Utah. We want to come out next summer for a long trip.

Courtney said...

I just read this. I'm so excited for you and Brian! William is a lucky boy to have you two.

Amy said...

AWESOME! I am WAY behind on blogging, so I just found out about William! Woohoo! I'm so happy for your little expanding FAMILY!