Seeking God Knows What

This last week flew by, which is good because T was gone for two separate overnights for work and drove about 1500 miles plus was on-call and had more phone calls than he has had in a LONG LONG time.  This upcoming week is much “calmer” and he has Friday off!

We had our annual friends weekend at one of our friend’s family cottage north of here this weekend.  Weather was not so great for hanging out by the water with the kids, except for a couple hours yesterday afternoon.  Massive severe weather in our neck of the woods this weekend did not make for a completely relaxing weekend.  It was good to see everyone and the three 3-year-olds managed to get along very well but still 8 adults and 5 kids (and we were minus 1 baby who stayed with a grandparent) makes for a crowded two bedroom cottage.

And I agreed to work for two days a week for the next few weeks to “help out” at my former job.  It all started when I e-mailed to let my former supervisor know she would be getting an adoption reference, because I’m technically still an employee of Thermoblah.  Needless to say, I got this long e-mail back about how the new person they want to hire is still in the hiring process, how she was going to be in and out because her husband is having some severe health issues (I knew he was having some medical problems but it has gone downhill in the last few weeks), how someone left in the sales team and now she is sharing one of her staff to help cover that position until someone gets hired in.  In short, she was feeling overwhelmed and if I might be able to come in at all, she would be thrilled.  When I called my daycare person, she still had Widget’s slots open, so now I’m back to work for a few weeks.  It isn’t that big of a deal but sometimes I wish I had a little more “stick-to-it”-tiveness about my decisions. 

And the paperwork for adoption #2 is really started now!  I’ve got a post brewing about how happy I am with the agency we chose to work with and their efforts to do this process right.  We had a really interesting “support group” meeting last week Wednesday that I want to share about, partially because I need some ideas from people about a couple of different things related to adoption #2 and the agency itself.