Friday, March 17, 2006
Sick Day
I wish everything was going better in russian adoption land. Weeks like this challenge my thoughts and desires to start our family this way. Am I crazy for wanting to do all of this paperwork and waiting months (years), with the possibility of having things not work out or get seriously delayed and/or heartbroken? What happens if after all of the paperwork & time, we can't find the right "match" for our family? I can't imagine having my family any other way. I hope things turn around in the months to come.
Yesterday I woke up with a sore throat, and it didn't go away overnight so I thought I would stay home today and get back on track. I'm not one for taking my sick days, even when I'm sick. But after I made the decision to go back to work in January, one big resolution I had with myself was to listen to my body, exercise and keep stress levels down. So today, I am taking a sick day and I feel good about it!
I actually didn't have much to do at work today anyways because I wasn't planning on being at work most of this week. On Wed I was scheduled for jury duty. So I went to the local court house, got psyched about serving my community (they showed this video & had a very charismatic judge talk to us), learned I could be in court for up to 5 days learning about a corporate case, murder case, etc, waited 2.5 hours, and then it was announced that there were no trials so we could all go home! I was kind of disappointed. I guess it's good that the "crime level" is low enough that they don't need jurys everyday. This means I won't be asked back to serve for another year, and I had to go back to work.
So Yoshi and I will hang out on the couch, watch some TV talk shows, probably read 100 blogs and take a nap. I am getting alittle worried about my blog roll. It is taking me a good hour or so to get through all of the blogs I read. I'm going to have to start reading them at work so I can spend time with my husband in the evening.
Have a good weekend - you all desire it!
6 Comments:
Adopt A Child.orgAdopting from Russia
Eastern European Adoption Coalition, Inc
Embassy of the Russian Federation
Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoption
Karen's Adoption Links
Older Child Adoption
Russia Adoption Blog
Russian Adoption Medical Services
Russian Family Search
Russian Toys
Vernissage Press
All I can say is don't "What if" your choices. D said that to me monday night. I kept going on about what if we had pushed more for plan B or what if they had been reaccredited sooner. He held me and said you can't "what if" this. It is what it is.
Do we have the same husband? That's exactly what M would say if I told him these thoughts.
Hang in there, it's got to get better eventually!
I am sorry you are sick, but I think sick days are great though. Everybody needs those now and then.
It takes me a long time to read everyone’s blogs too. The problem is that I do it preferentially to things that I really need to do, but I figure you only live once. Might as well do what I enjoy doing- even if I have to go super speed in the last hour of the day to catch up