SO much has changed, a move, a wedding, and plans to adopt a little girl (well, hopefully)
My hubby and I visited England and Spain (both home to me) in May 2011 for the first time in 3 years. It had been far too long not seeing family, espeically my ageing Grandma. While we were tehre we received and email telling us that we had orders to California! Excited wasn't the word, then sadness at leaving the wonderful friends I had made... :(
In September 2011 we drove the 1600 miles from Nebraska to Northern California. It was an exhausting trip.. My husband I I drove seperately. Me in the car with our two dogs- and loaded to the max with personal stuff, my husband had the moving truck and our cat!
After a 2 day drive- we will NEVER do that again, and a brief stay with our friend in Salt Lake, we arrived in Sacramento! Driving through Nevada was amazing, it was so mountainous. Then through the Tahoe National forest... It reminded me so much of Spain that I felt like I had come home. :)
We settled in a little rented house in a town called Wheatland. I have never lived in such a small town before, and never want to again. I am a city girl, I grew up 5 minutes from the Tower of London for crying out loud! Being somewhere that had one 'village store' that sold a loaf of bread for $4.50, was more than I could handle.
Just before we moved into our new house we had a trip back to England (and Scotland) for my sisters wedding. It was the first time that I had visited Scotland (I am a Londoner, I don't like travelling north, ;) ). But I was amazed by it's beauty, and really wish I had visited before I lived on the West Coast of the USA!
The wedding was beautiful, set in a small castle in Scotland. The day was perfect and my sister looked beautiful!
After being here for a few months we decided to try again for a baby. I found a new fertility Doc and made an appointment.
After initial tests and a consult he told me that he thought the only way I would get pregnant was through IVF. We couldn't afford the $20k costs, so asked if we could try injectable hormones again. We tried, twice, and nothing. After hearing that a friend of mine was diagnosed with hormone related breast cancer (a direct result of her fertility treatment) I decided that this was not for me anymore. After 16 tries at fertility treatment, one pregnancy that ended in a late miscarriage, I didn't want to take the risk.
We went to a Cinco de Mayo party and got talking to a couple there. We found out that they had adopted their daughter from an agency close by. We got in contact with the agency and they told us that they had an 'Orientation meeting' opening for that same evening (which would have been my mums birthday). We went and decided to sign up for classes to become foster parents (first step) that started June 19th! It is all happening kind of quickly, which is good as it doesn't give me too much time to worry and over think :)
Here in California you go through foster to adopt with the State. There are no real fees (not like the upwards of $23k in Nebraska) and there is a lot of post adoption help too. We have met other couples going through the exact same process as us at the same time, and even another Air Force family. So this will be the next stage in our lives, foster with the hope to adopt a girl/girls.
In the meantime we are fostering a (he was 4 weeks old) 6 week old puppy named Billy Bear... he was too young to be at the shelter so we took him in. He is very cute and keeping me very busy.
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