All you single moms and single moms-to-be...I raise my hat to you!! Marty has been gone all week and I've been a "single" mom of sorts. It doesn't matter if you don't feel well or you are tired. Dinner still has to be cooked, baths still have to be given and you still might have to get up in the middle of the night to soothe a crying/screaming little one. All the while still working full time. Exhausting I tell you!
I have nothing good to say about our adoption agency except that we got sweet Maddy out of the deal. I have to say it feels great to basically have them say you are lying about turning in your one month post-placement letter so they don't have to refund you your deposit money. NOT. Wouldn't you think that if this was such an important letter they would remind you that you didn't send it? The thing is, I know I sent it. I even have a friend from this same agency who remembers me asking her questions about what to actually put in this letter. I've forwarded comments to them from this friend (taking out her name and email address of course) and they write me today to say that because they don't have the letter and I dont' have a copy of it, they are not going to refund my deposit money. Whatever happened to the customer is always right?? Now mind you, we are only talking about $100 here but to us, $100 is $100. Plus, this is just the icing on the cake right now. They've screwed us out of other things to. I'll be happy to get our 12 month post-placement report out of the way and be done with them once and for all! thankfully we have a wonderful social worker.
Because I was sooo freaking exhausted this week and ticked about the above statement, I decided I needed to cook something. I'm supposed to be on a diet and I know I haven't lost a single pound this week and will have to pay my money for not losing but, I needed to do some major cooking so I busted out a couple of recipes from my friend Stacey (whose blog is no more..boohoo). Let me tell you.. this is just what I needed. Homemade guacamole and this awesome Bl*ack bean and C*orn S*alsa! YUM-O. Picture proof below of just how yummy and fresh this stuff is.(and good for you too) Makes my mouth water just looking at the picture.
I miss my old job working from home!! Being a working mom outside the home bites! Well, not totally but darn if it isn't down right impossible to get things done like going to the post office, the bank etc. They are closed before I go to work and closed by the time I get off work. I just can't shove everything I need to do on saturday mornings. How did I do this when I was younger? I used to work full-time, manage my home, take care of two small children, etc etc etc. Am I really THAT old?
Don't you hate it when your own family can't be honest with you about things! I hate feeling like my family is lying to me about stuff. Aren't we all grown-ups? Can't we just say things like they are and stop beating around the bush??
I miss my bloggy friends. Even so, I just can't bring myself to blog every night. I'm horrible about picking up the phone too. However, to all my blogging friends out there... I do think of all of you often and wonder how things are going. I just had to get a life and make sure it wasn't living inside my computer. After 8 years of working online, I felt like my whole life was inside my computer. I'm so happy to have met those of you I've met and talked on the phone with. I'm also happy to blog with those I've not had the pleasure of meeting yet. And.. while I'm not always commenting on your blogs, I am reading.
Yes Tracy, I voted a few times for Parkersburg, W.Va but most of my votes have been going towards C-bus, Ohio. Go B*ucks!!! :0)
Well, I think that's all for tonight. I'm blogged out. Pityful I know. Time to go watch my tapped show So You Th*nk You C*n Dance
