life just keeps changing...
i know i haven't written in here in ages; somehow life just keeps me incredibly busy. i haven't really had time to keep up with my friends and do things with other people, which is fairly uncommon for me. i miss everyone and hearing about their lives; but i know they are busy too. foster care is just a completely different realm and now i am adding adoption to that until we have another person hired to take my foster care cases. anyways - other than that, i feel like i am actually learning a lot of clinical skills in this position and i keep getting compliments on them and my judgment, so that makes me feel better about knowing what i'm doing, etc. every day i feel like i am learning something new (clinically), whether it be about myself, my clients or my co-workers. so, as stressful and busy as it may be, i'm really enjoying working in Charlottesville. i really feel like i made the right decision in moving here.
life is never easy and it keeps throwing all kinds of things at me that i never thought i would be able to handle, but i am doing it. last weekend we ended up having to take Sawyer to a shelter - it was really hard for me and don't know that i can fully imagine how difficult it was for ayden. he only stayed with us three weeks and i was incredibly sad. we still haven't heard if they are going to put him up for adoption or not yet. as of thursday, they had not evaluated him yet. christian was really depressed that sawyer was gone too. even thought they didn't really play together (sawyer outweighs christian by about 70 pounds), they were buddies. *sigh*. i wish we could have done something differently or found a better foster home for him; but it just wasn't working out. i suppose whatever is supposed to happen will happen....
we are leaving for vacation in five days. we haven't really made any definite plans yet
(which is scary for me - i like to plan!) - we only know where we are going. hopefully i can get some things figured out this weekend. since i'm going to be out for a week and two days though, i have to go into the office and do work this weekend. i'm hoping it won't take me too long but we'll see. i've never written a termination plan before, so i really need to take my time with this one. starting to work adoption cases is interesting and completely scary since i really have no idea what i'm doing! this should be fun...
i dont feel like i really have anything insightful to add to this journal anymore...it's kind of strange but i guess that's what happens. :)i hope everyone is well and i love and miss all of you mucho!
life is never easy and it keeps throwing all kinds of things at me that i never thought i would be able to handle, but i am doing it. last weekend we ended up having to take Sawyer to a shelter - it was really hard for me and don't know that i can fully imagine how difficult it was for ayden. he only stayed with us three weeks and i was incredibly sad. we still haven't heard if they are going to put him up for adoption or not yet. as of thursday, they had not evaluated him yet. christian was really depressed that sawyer was gone too. even thought they didn't really play together (sawyer outweighs christian by about 70 pounds), they were buddies. *sigh*. i wish we could have done something differently or found a better foster home for him; but it just wasn't working out. i suppose whatever is supposed to happen will happen....
we are leaving for vacation in five days. we haven't really made any definite plans yet
(which is scary for me - i like to plan!) - we only know where we are going. hopefully i can get some things figured out this weekend. since i'm going to be out for a week and two days though, i have to go into the office and do work this weekend. i'm hoping it won't take me too long but we'll see. i've never written a termination plan before, so i really need to take my time with this one. starting to work adoption cases is interesting and completely scary since i really have no idea what i'm doing! this should be fun...
i dont feel like i really have anything insightful to add to this journal anymore...it's kind of strange but i guess that's what happens. :)i hope everyone is well and i love and miss all of you mucho!