July 2007 Update
July was a month filled with boxes, trucks, shutting off
utilities, saying good-bye to old friends, driving across the
country, setting up new utilities, saying hello to new friends,
unpacking, hanging pictures, exploring our new town, and
beginning a new chapter in our lives as a family of three in
western New York. What a whirlwind!!! With two trucks coming at
different times from MN and FL, we were completely settled in
about 2 weeks.
In addition, Rob and I celebrated our eleventh anniversary on
July 20. Wow, how the time flies!
Rob has begun his new job as a researcher in a cutting edge
field of Philosophy known as Formal Ontology. He LOVES it and is
enjoying the break from teaching (which he has done for the past
11 years, 14 if you include his years teaching high school). He
works in a beautiful new building in a medical complex downtown
and, lucky for me, he takes the train to work every morning. The
train station is a five minute walk from our house and I’ve
offered to drive him there on nasty days. But thus far, the
weather has been gorgeous!!!
Western NY is awesome in the summer!!! There is low humidity and
it stays in the 70’s and 80’s during the day. At night it drops
to the 50’s or 60’s so it very comfortable sleeping with the
windows open (we don’t have central air). We do have a window
unit in our bedroom so on nights when it’s uncomfortably hot in
the house, we let Zoe sleep on the floor in our room with the AC
on. To date, we’ve had to do this three times.
Rob’s new job has him at the office 9-5 writing and researching,
Monday through Friday, so it’s a huge change for all of us. He’s
working on several of his own books and papers in this field and
in Philosophy of Biology in general. Every morning, Zoe wakes up
and asks about her Daddy. We fill our days with playtime, art
projects, cooking, swimming in the baby pool in the backyard,
riding bikes, etc., and by the time Daddy gets home, she’s
beside herself with excitement. Zoe looks forward to seeing her
Daddy everyday when he gets home and her favorite time each
night is when he comes and snuggles with her after Mommy has put
her to bed.
Uncle Wally came to visit us, and he and Zoe picked up where
they left off last time. While he was in town we went to see the
Canadian side of Niagara Falls … GEORGOUS!!! And we also hit the
Zoo one day. Fun!
We joined an adoptive families network here in town and met some
wonderful people. We are actually renting our home from one of
those families! And we LOVE our house!!!
In terms of our adoption, I have been busy filling out criminal
background checks (in NY you have to give them a list of every
single address where you have lived since turning 18 … for me,
that’s something like 13 places), scheduling doctors
appointments, talking with our new Social Worker, and the like.
I feel a bit overwhelmed as we need to have everything submitted
to the BCIS no later than September 17. But it will all work out
and this month is flying by!!! As of July 17 we have been
waiting 17 months so we’re one month closer! |
Swimming in our new backyard.
Check out Zoe's awesome pink room!!!
At Lake Erie.
Everyone LOVES a brown eyed girl!!! |
