Showing posts with label foster care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foster care. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

I don't know...

We had our first call for kids on Monday afternoon. By the time we got on the same page with the agency, the kids had been placed. But that's okay... we got a call!!!! Positive yardage!!!!!! I asked our director if we could let her be our voice and tell her what we can can't take, and she said absolutely. We are just so new that it hasn't been able to be discussed yet! Oh well... God will find the right kids for us.

On the homefront, Avery's teacher has suggested an ADD evaluation. I think we need to buckle back down on the Feingold Diet and cut out TV and Wii during the school week and see if we can straighten him back out. His OT is not real fond of this suggestion, but then relented by saying that there are kids out there who do benefit from medication. We had decided to transfer to public school next year, now I am questioning that decision AGAIN! We have loved Duluth Montessori, do NOT love the tuition!! So, we are talking to psychologists to have him at least evaluated. We will see...

Monday, September 29, 2008

Here we are

  So, here we are in the middle of our journey...  actually, this may be the beginning or perhaps the end.  We are in the process of enlarging our family.  Most people do this the old- fashioned way, but apparently God has something else in mind for us.  We are Andy, Tracy and Avery Duncan.  We live in Gwinnett County, Ga.  and are in the process of hopefully adopting through our local DFCS office.  
  We have chosen to go this route for several reasons, the first of which is we thought this would be the path of least resistance.  Boy, were we wrong!  It has taken right at a year to get through the approval process.  We were finally approved around the middle of September. (that's it's own funny story!)  Secondly, we have a wonderful child already (who DESPERATELY (thinks) he wants brothers and sisters), so we don't feel the need for an infant, and lastly, we want to make a difference here, in our country.
  So, we have put in a request for information on a darling sibling group of three children, a nine yo girl, a six yo boy and a five yo boy, the two of which our son will fall smack dab between.  Our house will be so full and busy...  like music to my heart!