{"id":3198,"date":"2014-04-21T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T15:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2014-04-21T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T15:47:04","slug":"just-passing-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=3198","title":{"rendered":"Just Passing Time…"},"content":{"rendered":"

One year and one week ago, we made the decision<\/a> to adopt from foster care. As much as I wish everything had gone according to [our] plan and we\u2019d had a child in our home by Christmas, that didn\u2019t happen. We\u2019re still waiting for the approval<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the year, we have cleaned out<\/a> our 2nd<\/sup> bedroom\/ office and furnished it<\/a> completely for our Fletchling. We got rid of a lot of clutter. We moved husband\u2019s huge desk into our bedroom leaving the 2nd<\/sup> bedroom useless for 8 months. OK not entirely useless, the cat lives in there. I installed shelving<\/a> to keep the cleaners and chemicals far out of a child’s (and almost my) reach. We bought new couches and they\u2019re almost totally paid off. We made a lot of mental changes to adapting to being a family of 3. We discussed lowering our age range<\/a>. I have attended countless adoption and foster support meetings and conferences and made invaluable friendships<\/a> of other parents going through the same thing we\u2019re dealing with and more. We made several other changes, but we still have a long way to go.<\/p>\n

I am still hoping that we\u2019ll get our results and approval this week, but I\u2019m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n

Also, I’ve been working on a pretty comprehensive Timeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I might’ve also become addicted to doing my nails. Being a thumb sucker for 5+ years then a nail biter for 30+ years, my nails were always crappy and ragged bc I bit them. Keeping polish on them has actually made me stop chewing on them! I joined the Julep Maven<\/a> program and got my first box for FREE. Clicking that link or the icon in the sidebar – and using the code FREEBOX – will get you a free box as well. No, I’m not being compensated for this post (or any for that matter) to talk about them. I’ve also been using Sally Hansen, Rimmel and Wet N Wild polishes. I just happen to like the Julep ones the best.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One year and one week ago, we made the decision to adopt from foster care. As much as I wish everything had gone according to [our] plan and we\u2019d had a child in our home by Christmas, that didn\u2019t happen. We\u2019re still waiting for the approval. During the year, we have cleaned out our 2nd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,16,29,46,85,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-bedroom","category-child-safety","category-foster-adoption","category-kids-room","category-support-group","category-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}