Tired
Man...I did not realize how hard it would be to get motivated to write again. I really want to write, I love to write...but when I had my last blog it was so much easier. Probably because I did not work, and now I have a stressful job (where I sit at a computer all day). I am tired when I get home...and the last thing I want to do is sit at a computer again. Maybe I need to not be so hard on myself and not expect to feel like writing more than once a week. I mean, it's not like I have a Blogger Boss expecting a 3 paragraph post each day by 5 or I'm fired...right?
I do have a lot to talk about...a lot has been on my mind. We have finally started the foster-to-adopt process. Well, at least - I think we have. We received our background check paperwork in the mail, filled it all out, and returned it to the DCFS receptionist who assured me she would get it to our caseworker. That was Friday the 13th...hmmm...now that I say it maybe that was a bad omen. I haven't heard a word since. Also I might mention that in the envelope with the background paperwork we had to fill out there were no instructions concerning what to do with it. So I just assumed we were to give it back to them. Maybe I was wrong. I might know the answer to that if our caseworker wold return any of the 3 messages I left, or answer the phone any of the hundred or so times I have tried to call and not left a message.
We are new at this, and have no idea how the process works really. I feel like there MUST be something we should be doing at this point...but nobody who knows what we should be doing knows what THEY should be doing (which is being a little more helpful with newbies to the foster world). Granted, I know they are busy. But, so am I. I am an accountant in the RV industry, which if you haven't heard isn't doing so hot...and we are on skeleton crew. I am now doing the job that at least 2 people used to do in a minimum of 80 hours a week...and I have to get it done in 40. So I do know a little about being busy. But I also know if I didn't return calls of new dealers who wanted to do business with us, we would lose those new dealers as they become frustrated with not getting return calls. The same could probably also be said of Foster Care. I have only been officially in the process for about a week and a half, but already I can truly imagine that the frustration of never being able to talk to anyone or get any answers might drive people to just say "forget it". I am not one of those people...I will soldier on. I will be patient. I just wish there could be an easier way. Maybe I should quit the RV industry and go to work for the Foster system...they seem to need the help.
Well...more later (I didn't say *when* later...haha)...I have a phone call to make :)
Love,
Mariah
Posted in: Adoption, blogging, Foster Care on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at at 12:46 PM
