It's now January and I haven't update this thing in a while, so I suppose I should go ahead and do so. I'm sure all of you dear readers have been waiting with bated breath since November to learn of all things Massey.
We had our home study with Helping Hand Home and it went really well. It was not as long, nor as traumatic as I had anticipated, so that's always nice. I'm pretty sure that it went quicker because Amanda and I were very detailed in our questionnaire, meaning that there was less for them to ask or delve into. Honestly, I'm sure when they read mine that they probably put down "we didn't need that much detail." We are now playing the waiting game until they call us to come to Austin and they'll sit with us and go over our home study with them and then we will hopefully be licensed and then its a matter of time until the Massey house has more than just dogs and cats in it.
Christmas break was great. We got to spend a few days in Louisiana with Amanda's grandparents, which meant Gumbo, Notini's, Johnny's Pizza, and enough candied pecans to choke a donkey. We got to enjoy Christmas Eve candlelight service and we watched enough football to last us a lifetime. As soon as we came back we got to have Christmas with my Parents, another Christmas with Amanda's Uncle Terry and the Turk Christmas which is Christmas with my mom's side of the family. 30+ people in my parents house, all talking at once. It's kind of like having an orchestra playing Beethoven's 9th symphony in your living room, but they've all swapped instruments and so its just organized noise. But it was great to see family and update them on our lives and this whole adoption process. The downtime that we had was spent binge-watching TV and keeping ourselves from freezing. The dogs got sleep inside since it was so cold and they now believe that our bed is where they are supposed to go every night. A few nights ago I asked Amanda where Emma was and she said "maybe she went to bed?" and thats exactly what she did.
They've since gone back to sleeping outside and the both of us have since gone back to work, and neither parties are really happy with that, but such is life.
Oh, and today we bought a new dryer. Not because we were all excited, but because the other just said "Nope" and refused to work. So yeah, that was a blast. Not to mention trying to get the dryer vent tube to not get pinched while pushing the dyer back in place. The both of us were ready to pull our hair out. Why can't you just put clothes in the oven to dry? I mean, they may end up smelling like the last thing you baked, but I feel thats a small price to pay to not be frustrated and want to burn the dryer vent in effigy. Somedays I wonder why anyone was ever anxious to grow up. I'm more of Toys R'Us kid.
I'm going to talk now about Tom Petty, but I promise that it will eventually make sense.
Tom Petty was one of my favorite musicians, I saw him live twice and I'll never forget my dad yelling "YEAH!" and pumping his fist in the air when they started "Runnin Down a Dream." But one of my favorite Tom Petty songs is not one of his MASSIVE hits, like Free Fallin, or Mary Jane's Last Dance. My favorite song is "The Waiting." It will be hard to listen to that song now without tearing up. (As a matter of full disclosure, I cry listening to a bunch of songs, so this new development is not something new. I just have to hear George Jones say "He said I'll love you 'til I die" and I'm a mess.) The chorus of The Waiting is as follows:
The Waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more card
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The Waiting is the hardest part.
Every single word in that chorus is true. The waiting seems to always be more stressful than the actual event. I'm pretty sure thats never going to change. But that's ok, because it worked out for Tom, so it will work out for us too.
We had our home study with Helping Hand Home and it went really well. It was not as long, nor as traumatic as I had anticipated, so that's always nice. I'm pretty sure that it went quicker because Amanda and I were very detailed in our questionnaire, meaning that there was less for them to ask or delve into. Honestly, I'm sure when they read mine that they probably put down "we didn't need that much detail." We are now playing the waiting game until they call us to come to Austin and they'll sit with us and go over our home study with them and then we will hopefully be licensed and then its a matter of time until the Massey house has more than just dogs and cats in it.
Christmas break was great. We got to spend a few days in Louisiana with Amanda's grandparents, which meant Gumbo, Notini's, Johnny's Pizza, and enough candied pecans to choke a donkey. We got to enjoy Christmas Eve candlelight service and we watched enough football to last us a lifetime. As soon as we came back we got to have Christmas with my Parents, another Christmas with Amanda's Uncle Terry and the Turk Christmas which is Christmas with my mom's side of the family. 30+ people in my parents house, all talking at once. It's kind of like having an orchestra playing Beethoven's 9th symphony in your living room, but they've all swapped instruments and so its just organized noise. But it was great to see family and update them on our lives and this whole adoption process. The downtime that we had was spent binge-watching TV and keeping ourselves from freezing. The dogs got sleep inside since it was so cold and they now believe that our bed is where they are supposed to go every night. A few nights ago I asked Amanda where Emma was and she said "maybe she went to bed?" and thats exactly what she did.
What? This is where I sleep.
They've since gone back to sleeping outside and the both of us have since gone back to work, and neither parties are really happy with that, but such is life.
Oh, and today we bought a new dryer. Not because we were all excited, but because the other just said "Nope" and refused to work. So yeah, that was a blast. Not to mention trying to get the dryer vent tube to not get pinched while pushing the dyer back in place. The both of us were ready to pull our hair out. Why can't you just put clothes in the oven to dry? I mean, they may end up smelling like the last thing you baked, but I feel thats a small price to pay to not be frustrated and want to burn the dryer vent in effigy. Somedays I wonder why anyone was ever anxious to grow up. I'm more of Toys R'Us kid.
I'm going to talk now about Tom Petty, but I promise that it will eventually make sense.
Tom Petty was one of my favorite musicians, I saw him live twice and I'll never forget my dad yelling "YEAH!" and pumping his fist in the air when they started "Runnin Down a Dream." But one of my favorite Tom Petty songs is not one of his MASSIVE hits, like Free Fallin, or Mary Jane's Last Dance. My favorite song is "The Waiting." It will be hard to listen to that song now without tearing up. (As a matter of full disclosure, I cry listening to a bunch of songs, so this new development is not something new. I just have to hear George Jones say "He said I'll love you 'til I die" and I'm a mess.) The chorus of The Waiting is as follows:
The Waiting is the hardest part
Every day you see one more card
You take it on faith, you take it to the heart
The Waiting is the hardest part.
Every single word in that chorus is true. The waiting seems to always be more stressful than the actual event. I'm pretty sure thats never going to change. But that's ok, because it worked out for Tom, so it will work out for us too.
I’m so glad even got to hear more about your adoption experience in person at Turkmas. What a process! Y’all are so incredibly good natured, and especially patient, and that in and of itself is a pretty key trait in a parent (one I could desperately use more of).
ReplyDeleteSide note: I wasn’t a huge tom petty fan ‘til I watched a 5 or 6 hour (!) documentary on him and loved him ever since. Pretty much every one of his songs makes me cry now! Xo