Our Social Worker.

So we met with our Social Worker this past week.  We are very sad that she is leaving the territory since we have had a great connection with her.  It has been really nice having a Christian social worker who understands our values and morals.  She also loves Tillsley and every time she comes to the house she spends the entire time holding the dog in her lap!  I like it when people fall in love with my fur-babies!

The slightly bad news is that at this time they are not replacing her which means that we won't be assigned a new social worker.  The adoption coordinator will essentially take over and if a child comes up for adoption she will be the one that will (hopefully) think of us and put our names forward.  I'm not too concerned considering that our social worker, in the two years she has worked at family services, has only done one adoption and even that one hasn't been finalised yet.

So, I really do not see us adopting any time soon, at least not from family services.  I'm still hoping that through friends and contacts who know we are looking to adopt, a birth mom will approach us.  Until then our energy (and money!) will go towards IVF which I am really hoping will happen sometime this fall... but we will see.

Our Newest Addition!

So, I realised I've never put up pics on here of our new puppy.  Back when we got Tillsley I did a post.  Maybe a second dog is like a second kid... not as many pictures! lol!  I know Fizzgig (blame my Hubby for the name) is not really related to infertility or adoption but he is SUPER cute and this blog could use some cute and happy! :o)  He's almost 9 months old now ( we got him in February) and is a purebreed Pomeranian.  We got him in Alberta while we were there for Jeff's back (if you don't know that story he fell down some stairs while there for a conference and crushed a vertebrae... not even a year after falling and breaking his hip!)

Bath Time!

Fizzgig is a BIG trouble maker... but we love him.  He makes us smile with his little head tilt when you speak to him and his cute, but slightly dumb expression!  Him and Tillsley are getting along okay, though I think Tillsley is counting the days until Fizzgig gets older and doesn't want to play and bite so much.  Now if I could only get him house trained...

On an infertility note, I have a GYN appointment on June 1st to discuss IVF.  I wish we could have gotten a much sooner appointment.  I hope this doesn't mean a long wait to get referred for the procedure.  The worst part about doing this process all over again (we've been through all this when we lived in Alberta) is that I have to do all the tests over again.  I don't mind blood tests but I really hate charting my temperature every morning.  Oh well... whatever it takes to get this process started!

On an adoption note, while we were away in Ontario last week we had a message from our social worker.  She's leaving. :o(  We had a really great relationship with her.  I don't know who our next worker will be... I hope we click with him/her.  It's hard when that person will not have been through the homestudy with us and will really only know us by reading our profile.  Oh well... we don't ever really expect to adopt while we are here anyways.

I think that's everything.  I hope you are all enjoying your day!