Quick Catch Up...

Yes, I do always say that I want to be a regular blogger. But here I am, a month since my last posting. Can I turn over a new leaf with the start of the school year? I hope so!

So what's happened with us in the last month? Well...a lot! Robert started a job at Target Corp, which he LOVES. He's been in the training phase for the past month, and learning a lot! It's been a challenge to learn to adapt to his new schedule. I've been doing a lot more of the real estate stuff - and learning a TON in the process. But I like it, and feel like much more experienced already. While the market is slow, we've been doing okay. In fact, we just sold a house last night!

Robert also started his MBA program. He is doing it through Bethel University, and he just finished his first class yesterday. He likes it and it fits with his schedule well (you only go to class one night a week - and not even every week - it is mostly online). So far he's been disciplined to keep up with his homework too - despite his busy schedule. Way to go honey!

Over the last month or so, we've been researching adoption. Robert and I have always known that we want to adopt children, regardless of our ability to have children biologically too. Since we are both working at places that will help pay for adoption, we thought it would be a good option to pursue right now. So we went through the process of getting information from a bunch of different agencies, paring it down and going to informational meetings. We filled out a preliminary application for one agency we were especially impressed by, and received a formal application. We decided to 'pull the trigger' and go for it, despite our uncertainties and fears. As we were in the process of filling out the formal application, we set up a meeting with an adoption coordinator at the agency we plan to work with. That meeting was this past Monday and was very helpful. Based on that meeting, and more information that we learned, we decided to wait on pursuing adoption for a couple years. In the meantime, we'll work on having our first child be a biological one! The reasons we decided to wait were because the program we are mainly interested in (Colombia) has changed their restrictions. Couples must now be married for 3 years to adopt. In addition, the waiting list for that program is currently about a year long. Other programs are similar in length of wait. If we have a child biologically, we can be on the adoption waiting list while our child is growing in his/her first year or two, which will make more sense for us.

I'd love to write more, but I have to jet off to work. I WILL try to be more regular at blogging! I'm not saying you'll see something from me every day, but at least once a week.

All for now!