First Blog

I decided I need an place to write what I am going thru - just as a need to have a place to vent , share, etc - I like writing things down - funny in the past when my husband and I didn't agree or just got into to a free for all argument , I would always write down my feeling - It helps me ;-)







Ok - So here are the players on my team lol - me JoAnn - 30 years old grew up in Newark, NJ with my mom and brother, Isaac - my 38 yeard old husband who also grew in in Newark - with his mom and 1 brother and 1 sister- and my princess Ny'Lee who is a spunky 8 years old. - and I feel as if I have been trying to concieve for the last 8 years - we had been "officially ttc #2together with help " since July - dh kept saying "oh JLIH" (just let it happen) then I was like wait til dd is 5 then we decided to wait until we bought our first home - so "we" have decided to go see a RE and found out we are having second time infertility. Well after 3 SA the RE sent my husband to the urologist - -Dh was just put on clomid - the ur said he wanted to try this to see if it would help us for Ivf , that he may put him on for 3 months- Well after speaking to my case nurse at the RE office she said that with dh #'s that we would have to seriously consider IVF w ICSI. So it got so stressed between us that I seriously thought that it was going to break us up -I was afraid that I was stressing him out to the max - almost every night I would go and look on the foster/adopt sites just reading .... so one night I was on the waiting children's page for adoption for my state and there was this little girl named Andrea- if there ever was a moment that you looked at some one and knew they "were the one" this was it - so I copied her bio and emailed it to my dh with her picture - knowing that he checks his email in the morning at work and as the day went by was a bit sad that he had not said anything to me about it - well wouldn't you know it he called me from work (2nd job) and told me "hey - that little girl you sent me is adorable contact the recruiter that is mentioned on there - so emailed the contact that was on her bio - and I got a call form the Resource worker that had came to see us over a year ago - so that's is how we got started with the whole Fostercare

We have decided to pursue foster/adopt (concurrant planning) to add to our family - A decision that was may over 2 years ago but due to lots of things we held off on it . But we got everything worked out -So here was our schedule

• 7/4/08 - intital application (again)
• 7/30/08-RS (Resource Worker) assigned
• 8/6/08 1st HS (Home Study) with DH (dear husband) and me together
• 9/17/08 2nd HS- my DH "one on one"
• 9/26/0- my HS "one on one"
• 9/27/08-finished Pride classes classes were 4 Saturdays form 9:30-5pm except for yesterday which was our "Graduation Party" and we stayed till 3