*Parenting Class Part 1*

            So a few weekends ago we had our first parenting classes for our adoption process. I have to just say I know these classes are necessary for people who intend on doing foster care or for some who adopt children with special needs but I think I could go my whole life without ever hearing about some of those stories. For the purpose of privacy I can't give details on what all we talked about but I will tell you that after a few hours I wanted to choke some parents and grab a box of tissues to wipe my tears.  As we were finishing up the last bit of the class for that night they reminded us that it only got worse as the classes went on! Are you kidding me?? How much more do you think I can take? It makes me sad to know that people don't realize what a precious gift they have been given nor do they care. 

        On a side note we finished all of our PAPERWORK!!! WOO-HOO!! This is actually something to truly celebrate. It literally took us exactly a month to the date to get it all done. Now all we have to do is finish the rest of our parenting classes which take place this weekend from 9-7 on Saturday then 1-6 on Sunday! Needless to say we have a very long weekend ahead of us but once those are done we are ready for our first interview. The interview was suppose to be done before the parenting classes but our background checks weren't back yet. So after the interview if they think we are mentally stable enough to have children in our home we will have a home study and then be on our way to parenthood.

       One of the big things we had to have done was CPR classes. I schedule the class a few weeks ago with the American Red Cross but had to pay 120.00 up front. They told us that if we had to cancel we would only get a portion of the money back which at the time we knew we weren't going to cancel so that was fine with us. Well we received an e-mail last week that the FSM fire department would do a class for us for free but we had to reply as soon as we could because they only had room for 3 couples! Well we decided to take our chances with the refund and book the free class. So we contacted the ARC to cancel our class but no one contacted us back for a few days. Then out of no where Praise God we received an e-mail saying they were refunding the full amount!!! That's Right we have Favor!! Within a few hours it was deposited back into our account without any problems. 

     The CPR class was so cool! It was at the fire station so the entire night we got to listen in on the calls being made to the local police station and the other fire stations! The guy was really informative and told us lots of stories about people he had rescued. It was pretty funny watching people do CPR on a doll named Annie because each time you had to come upon the victim and say "Annie are you okay? Are you Okay Annie?" which then resulted in each one of us belting out the rest of Michael Jackson's song.  We had a great class.  Well one month down and hopefully only a few more to go! The Journey is long but our steps are ordered by the Lord!