WOW

Wow, we knew it was going to be in the thousands with this adoption. But we didn’t think it was going to be that much with a friend coming to us and asking us to adopt her daughter’s baby. We got the amount on Wednesday how much we have to pay to the adoption agency. We have to nearly $10,300 to the adoption agency. If you count the fees we have done paid like the home study fee and application fee it is over $12,000 together. Then if you count our stay out in the state that our Jelly Bean was born in it makes it close to $18,000 to $20,000 all together. Our Jelly Bean will most likely be our one and only child. We had hoped and dream that would be able to give her a little brother or sister but that isn’t going to happen us God grants us another miracle by letting me getting pregnant.  Because there is no way we can afford another adoption, unless we played the lotto and won lol. We had to trade our truck off just to be able to pay some of what we have to pay. Our truck was all paid for. Had been for like nearly 2 years now. But we was able to get a nice 2011 car (that will be cheaper on gas in the long run and is very nice also) and we also got like $9000. We had to pay the adoption agency $2000 yesterday when we went because the dodge place hadn’t gave us the check for the truck yet as we had to find up the title and carry it to them (shoot we couldn’t find it and we looked all night Wednesday night. So the dodge place was able to go on some State website and look it up), so we got the check for the amount yesterday when Mike went by there, but that was after we had to done went to the adoption agency.
We had to go to the adoption agency to sign papers that has to be filed for the courts and by the end of November or sometime in December it will all be finalized. I have thought about having a little party then but I dont know if we will have the money for it with that being around Thanksgiving and Christmas and plus Mike’s birthday (that will be the best Thanksgiving/ Christmas/ Birthday give ever lol ).
Yes we are sad to have gotten rid of the truck but we are happy to because we have our Jelly Bean and she is worth everything that we have to pay or go thru.

Finally home

We finally was able to come home with our Jelly Bean. We got the all clear to leave on Thursday, so Mike came back to drive Jelly Bean and I back home. He got back to the hotel on Friday night and we got up on Saturday and started our long trip back home. That was a eventful trip, we had to pull over twice on I40 to change Jelly Bean’s diaper. Once I had to even clean her car seat out because she got it all over her and the car seat to. Once we got in Mississippi I drove the rest of the way home, well expect the last 30 minutes, I had to get Mike to drive as I was starting to get sick. I was just too tired and had a headache and was starting to get really hot. I wouldn’t have made it home if I had drove the rest of the way. I tried to but I just couldnt do it. It has been so good to be home. Jelly Bean is sleeping in her own little bed and she is sleeping pretty good in it to. That first night home she didnt want to sleep in it but last night she did. She got to meet some family members yesterday and it was a wonderful day. I think we are adjusting pretty good being home.

still waiting

We are still waiting to get the okay to leave the state that our Jelly Bean was born in. Well Jelly Bean and Mommy is waiting. Daddy had to go back to AL for work or he wouldn’t be paid and he needs to be paid. We hoping to hear something soon about being able to leave with her. I think we may be getting to leave this weekend but I am not going to hold my breath on that.
This week has been good and tough also. Good is getting to be with Jelly Bean, she actually only woke up like twice last night. So surprised at that. I dont know if it is just for last night or if she will continue to do that. I hope she does continue to wake up twice at night until she is sleeping thru the night. That would be so much better for mommy and daddy lol, but it will be what will be and wouldnt change anything about her at all. She is a good baby. She is happy just laying in her swing and swinging. She is happy with her Ms Owl that plays music.
The bad being away from Daddy. Both Jelly Bean and mommy wishes that Daddy was with us. And also this week my grandmother will be having a major surgery and I cannot be there as I am here waiting. My grandmother is not doing well at all. They have said that she may make it thru surgery and she may not. She is having to have her legs or just one of them removed (think it is both but not to sure). She has a very bad infection in them. I wish they was able to do the surgery sooner then what the doctors had set it up but I guess it is one of those it is what it is. I can not tell you how many times we have been told that my grandmother will not make it thru the night or etc over the years but by some miracle she makes a recovery. She is not the same woman that I remember as she has dementia and has had strokes and etc , so she is in a nursery home. (and yes I will emit it that I cannot stand to see her like that as I dont want to remember her like that. I want to remember her as the woman who would have yard sales. Drive fast and argue with my grandpa and etc. So I have not visited her the nursery home. But that doesnt mean that I dont love her and do not want her to suffer) So please pray for my grandmother and that we get to go home this weekend.

Two weeks and counting

Our Jelly Bean is two weeks old today and things are still going good. I am still a one happy mommy, even thought I am tired I am still happy. We still haven’t left the state she was born in yet as the lawyer seems to be taken his time about things. We will be so glad when we are back home and can get on a schedule schedule and can spread out more. We are so beyond tired of living in a hotel. I do not recommend hotel living for anyone.
Jelly Bean is growing like a weed. She has her two week appointment today and I bet she will be at 8lbs or over 8lbs one. She loves to eat. We can feed her bottle of two oz and she will still be hungry so we will give her a extra oz until she stops feeling hungry. There is times she will four oz, now not all the time but sometimes.  She is still as pretty as can be and melts our heart every time she smiles at us. I just wish that she didnt have her days and night mixed up. Going to try my hardest to get her to stay a wake more during the day then night. I hope that helps.
Mike and I are doing good. Like I said we wish we was home already and not living in a hotel anymore but we are doing good. Yes we are tired but what parents of a newborn isnt tired lol.