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Thursday, 15 October 2009
Michael Buble - Haven't met you yet
Sent to me by a very caring and considerate person: joansetter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyOLT7MCNZs
I’m not surprised
Not everything lasts
I’ve broken my heart so many times,
I stop keeping track.
Talk myself in
I talk myself out
I get all worked up
And then I let myself down.
I tried so very hard not to lose it
I came up with a million excuses
I thought I thought of every possibility
And I know someday that it'll all turn out
You'll make me work so we can work to work it out
And I promise you kid that I’ll get so much more than I get
I just haven't met you yet
Mmmm....
I might have to wait
I’ll never give up
I guess it's half timing
And the other half's luck
Wherever you are
Whenever it's right
You come out of nowhere and into my life
And I know that we can be so amazing
And baby your love is gonna change me
And now I can see every possibility
Mmmm......
And somehow I know that it will all turn out
And you'll make me work so we can work to work it out
And I promise you kid I’ll get so much more than I get
I just haven't met you yet
They say all's fair
And in love and war
But I won't need to fight it
We'll get it right
And we'll be united
And I know that we can be so amazing
And being in your life is gonna change me
And now I can see every single possibility
Mmmm.....
And someday I know it'll all turn out
And I’ll work to work it out
Promise you kid I’ll get more than I get
Than I get, than I get, than I get
Oh you know it'll all turn out
And you'll make me work so we can work to work it out
And I promise you kid to get so much more than I get
Yeah I just haven't met you yet
I just haven't met you yet
Oh promise you kid
To give so much more than I get
I said love, love, love, love, love, love, love.....
I just haven't met you yet
Love, love, love.....
I just haven't met you yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyOLT7MCNZs
I’m not surprised
Not everything lasts
I’ve broken my heart so many times,
I stop keeping track.
Talk myself in
I talk myself out
I get all worked up
And then I let myself down.
I tried so very hard not to lose it
I came up with a million excuses
I thought I thought of every possibility
And I know someday that it'll all turn out
You'll make me work so we can work to work it out
And I promise you kid that I’ll get so much more than I get
I just haven't met you yet
Mmmm....
I might have to wait
I’ll never give up
I guess it's half timing
And the other half's luck
Wherever you are
Whenever it's right
You come out of nowhere and into my life
And I know that we can be so amazing
And baby your love is gonna change me
And now I can see every possibility
Mmmm......
And somehow I know that it will all turn out
And you'll make me work so we can work to work it out
And I promise you kid I’ll get so much more than I get
I just haven't met you yet
They say all's fair
And in love and war
But I won't need to fight it
We'll get it right
And we'll be united
And I know that we can be so amazing
And being in your life is gonna change me
And now I can see every single possibility
Mmmm.....
And someday I know it'll all turn out
And I’ll work to work it out
Promise you kid I’ll get more than I get
Than I get, than I get, than I get
Oh you know it'll all turn out
And you'll make me work so we can work to work it out
And I promise you kid to get so much more than I get
Yeah I just haven't met you yet
I just haven't met you yet
Oh promise you kid
To give so much more than I get
I said love, love, love, love, love, love, love.....
I just haven't met you yet
Love, love, love.....
I just haven't met you yet
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
13-Oct to 19-Oct
Family finding:
Sorry for no update last week. Mary chased up the online group again, after having seen them in one of the paper publications. Apparently they are to start family finding in November so we wait again. On Friday (9th) we went to a family-finding event where local authorities advertise children that they are unable to place. We saw four groups that we were interested in and narrowed it down to one group; we gave our social worker their details. We have agreed to wait until after the outcome of the social worker meeting on Tuesday (13th) before we decide whether to progress them.
Camping update: we camped in our back garden and it was brilliant. We pretended we were in a camp site and we set everything up and cooked meals and washed up, etc. It was great fun! We found that we didn't need the dustpan and brush that Mary had packed but we did need the wardrobe / shelf unit that Mungo said we didn't need and we needed another table that neither of us thought we would need. So we were both pleased all in all, if a little achey the next morning! We also realised that double glazing is worth every penny - we thought our little estate was quiet but the traffic and general noises were really loud! The weather was lovely, it rained a bit in the morning for about 20 minutes or so, and then it cleared up into a beautiful day.
13-Oct: After Mary spent days turning the house practically upside-down re-arranging the upstairs rooms and freecycling all our junk we were ready to face the next set of social workers. They are interviewing us about a sibling group of two: a girl and boy. Ding ding! Round Three! They arrived and asked who the main carer was going to be; when Mary said it was her they asked her all the questions and didn't ask Mungo a single one all the way through! Our social worker commented that it was unusual and we noticed it too. We shared answering the question and asking our own questions together, but still they directed all the questions at Mary! Really weird! It did make Mary feel uncomfortable and very nervous at first. We answered all their questions and felt very happy with our answers. We showed them around the house and expained how the rooms would work out if birth mum had another child and we agreed to take it on. They seemed to like us, however, it's a competitive link, which means another couple have also been interviewed. This means that even though the like us, they may not like us as much as the others. Or should I say that we may not have more to offer the chilren than the others AND what we / they have to offer may not be the best that the social workers think they can find for the children. They may turn both of us down and carry on looking! When they left we felt that we had done the very best we could and our social worker was very pleased with us too. They have a meeting on Thursday and we are expecting to hear in the afternoon. Only one more sleep and several more agonising hours waiting then!
Studying:
Mary's courses: Childcare, Learning and Development, NVQ Level 3 - half way through number 6 (of 10). Nutrition and Health of School Aged Children, NVQ Level 2 - passed with a Distinction - yayyy!
Mungo's courses: M255 (Java Programming) – fourth and final assignment score was a massive 94%!!! Well done Mungo! The exam date is 14th October - Mungo is sitting the exam as Mary types! MT264 (Designing Applications With Visual Basic) – course started 3rd October.
Sorry for no update last week. Mary chased up the online group again, after having seen them in one of the paper publications. Apparently they are to start family finding in November so we wait again. On Friday (9th) we went to a family-finding event where local authorities advertise children that they are unable to place. We saw four groups that we were interested in and narrowed it down to one group; we gave our social worker their details. We have agreed to wait until after the outcome of the social worker meeting on Tuesday (13th) before we decide whether to progress them.
Camping update: we camped in our back garden and it was brilliant. We pretended we were in a camp site and we set everything up and cooked meals and washed up, etc. It was great fun! We found that we didn't need the dustpan and brush that Mary had packed but we did need the wardrobe / shelf unit that Mungo said we didn't need and we needed another table that neither of us thought we would need. So we were both pleased all in all, if a little achey the next morning! We also realised that double glazing is worth every penny - we thought our little estate was quiet but the traffic and general noises were really loud! The weather was lovely, it rained a bit in the morning for about 20 minutes or so, and then it cleared up into a beautiful day.
13-Oct: After Mary spent days turning the house practically upside-down re-arranging the upstairs rooms and freecycling all our junk we were ready to face the next set of social workers. They are interviewing us about a sibling group of two: a girl and boy. Ding ding! Round Three! They arrived and asked who the main carer was going to be; when Mary said it was her they asked her all the questions and didn't ask Mungo a single one all the way through! Our social worker commented that it was unusual and we noticed it too. We shared answering the question and asking our own questions together, but still they directed all the questions at Mary! Really weird! It did make Mary feel uncomfortable and very nervous at first. We answered all their questions and felt very happy with our answers. We showed them around the house and expained how the rooms would work out if birth mum had another child and we agreed to take it on. They seemed to like us, however, it's a competitive link, which means another couple have also been interviewed. This means that even though the like us, they may not like us as much as the others. Or should I say that we may not have more to offer the chilren than the others AND what we / they have to offer may not be the best that the social workers think they can find for the children. They may turn both of us down and carry on looking! When they left we felt that we had done the very best we could and our social worker was very pleased with us too. They have a meeting on Thursday and we are expecting to hear in the afternoon. Only one more sleep and several more agonising hours waiting then!
Studying:
Mary's courses: Childcare, Learning and Development, NVQ Level 3 - half way through number 6 (of 10). Nutrition and Health of School Aged Children, NVQ Level 2 - passed with a Distinction - yayyy!
Mungo's courses: M255 (Java Programming) – fourth and final assignment score was a massive 94%!!! Well done Mungo! The exam date is 14th October - Mungo is sitting the exam as Mary types! MT264 (Designing Applications With Visual Basic) – course started 3rd October.
Friday, 2 October 2009
29-Sep to 05-Oct
Family finding:
Sorry for no contact lately; we have been busy and Mary is feeling a bit deflated with it all, having a hard time and feeling like the stuffing has been knocked out of her. We are going to ring our social worker on Wednesday or Thursday if we have heard nothing from her. Mary has been chasing up some of those seven original proactive leads. Two are dead leads as the children have been linked. One has had no contact at all and we have decided not to continue. One has had the original email opened but nothing further, we probably won't go with that one either. The other three our social worker has received / swapped paperwork on. An eighth group we saw on the online version of the publication had contacted us in early September to say they will start family-finding in a couple of weeks.
So in the mean time we have started two projects: 1) A greenhouse / lean-to which we will buy and put up over the winter, when we have tidied up the garden and 2) Camping! Yes we have bought a load of stuff to go with the tent and the weekend after next we are going to do a dry run in the back garden!
01-Oct: We received a phone call this morning from our social worker about the sibling group of two that she had phoned us about last week. Their social workers want to meet us on the 13th October; they are also visiting another couple. Yes we have been here three times before and every time we get the phone call a little bit less of me / us gets excited.
02-Oct: Mary has chased up the online group as it has been more than two weeks since hearing anything.
Studying:
Mary's courses: Childcare, Learning and Development, NVQ Level 3 - half way through number 6 (of 10). Nutrition and Health of School Aged Children, NVQ Level 2 - sat exam on 16th September, awaiting result.
Mungo's courses: M255 (Java Programming) – awaiting the results of the fourth and final assignment; exam date is 14th October. MT264 (Designing Applications With Visual Basic) – course starts 3rd October.
Sorry for no contact lately; we have been busy and Mary is feeling a bit deflated with it all, having a hard time and feeling like the stuffing has been knocked out of her. We are going to ring our social worker on Wednesday or Thursday if we have heard nothing from her. Mary has been chasing up some of those seven original proactive leads. Two are dead leads as the children have been linked. One has had no contact at all and we have decided not to continue. One has had the original email opened but nothing further, we probably won't go with that one either. The other three our social worker has received / swapped paperwork on. An eighth group we saw on the online version of the publication had contacted us in early September to say they will start family-finding in a couple of weeks.
So in the mean time we have started two projects: 1) A greenhouse / lean-to which we will buy and put up over the winter, when we have tidied up the garden and 2) Camping! Yes we have bought a load of stuff to go with the tent and the weekend after next we are going to do a dry run in the back garden!
01-Oct: We received a phone call this morning from our social worker about the sibling group of two that she had phoned us about last week. Their social workers want to meet us on the 13th October; they are also visiting another couple. Yes we have been here three times before and every time we get the phone call a little bit less of me / us gets excited.
02-Oct: Mary has chased up the online group as it has been more than two weeks since hearing anything.
Studying:
Mary's courses: Childcare, Learning and Development, NVQ Level 3 - half way through number 6 (of 10). Nutrition and Health of School Aged Children, NVQ Level 2 - sat exam on 16th September, awaiting result.
Mungo's courses: M255 (Java Programming) – awaiting the results of the fourth and final assignment; exam date is 14th October. MT264 (Designing Applications With Visual Basic) – course starts 3rd October.
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
September
We have amended and updated our A4 profile and sent it out to seven social workers; we got a reply almost straight away from one of them and they are interested in us! Early days still but at least some movement in the right direction! We feel much more in control now.
Our social worker is on holiday so we are dealing with a two-week enforced break.
We have had various contacts and swapped paperwork on three groups of children, with another one in the pipeline. Again, more movement, albeit sloooooooow!
Our social worker is on holiday so we are dealing with a two-week enforced break.
We have had various contacts and swapped paperwork on three groups of children, with another one in the pipeline. Again, more movement, albeit sloooooooow!
Monday, 28 September 2009
22-Sep to 28-Sep
Family finding:
Today (22nd) we received a phone call from our social worker about a sibling group of two that we had identified in one of the publications when Mary was being all proactive! They are interested in swapping paperwork , so our social worker did that on the day. She also asked us if we would be interested in a 9, 6 and 5 year old sibling group, so we said no as they are too old.
Home and cars:
No updates.
Studying:
Mary's courses: Childcare, Learning and Development, NVQ Level 3 - half way through number 6 (of 10). Nutrition and Health of School Aged Children, NVQ Level 2 - sat exam on 16th September, awaiting result. Mungo's courses: M255 (Java Programming) – awaiting the results of the fourth and final assignment; exam date is 14th October. MT264 (Designing Applications With Visual Basic) – course starts 3rd October.
Today (22nd) we received a phone call from our social worker about a sibling group of two that we had identified in one of the publications when Mary was being all proactive! They are interested in swapping paperwork , so our social worker did that on the day. She also asked us if we would be interested in a 9, 6 and 5 year old sibling group, so we said no as they are too old.
Home and cars:
No updates.
Studying:
Mary's courses: Childcare, Learning and Development, NVQ Level 3 - half way through number 6 (of 10). Nutrition and Health of School Aged Children, NVQ Level 2 - sat exam on 16th September, awaiting result. Mungo's courses: M255 (Java Programming) – awaiting the results of the fourth and final assignment; exam date is 14th October. MT264 (Designing Applications With Visual Basic) – course starts 3rd October.
Monday, 21 September 2009
15-Sep to 21-Sep
Family finding:
We are awaiting our social worker to return from holiday to advise us if there has been any movement on four possibilities we are looking at. Mary was almost in the papers and on TV in the last couple of days following requests for people who are adopting. The newspaper reporter didn't ring back and the TV people decided to go with someone who had already adopted. Oh well, maybe another day; it was very exciting at the time though!
Tuesday PM: Last night I had a bit of a wobbler. Three things happened that made me get upset and made me feel like the universe was rubbing my face in it for being childless. 1). After the excitement I had with nearly being famous yesterday, I spent the afternoon thinking that it was flaming typical that a family with children was being chosen over someone without childen. It's hard enough being at the bottom of the 'child pile', but to be turned down for being childless wasn't really very helpful of the TV people, they didn't think that one through. 2). I gave away a book I had been given by my nephews when they were really little. It's called, "Pregnancy, Conception and Childbirth." My sister bought it for me when we were trying to conceive. I had tried to give it away on Freecycle a year ir two before but no-one would take it. This time someone did, and when they came to pick it up they asked me if it had been useful. I found myself lying and saying how great it had been. I couldn't tell her the truth. 3). A few minutes later I found myself dealing with this: I bought something from eBay on 30th August and it hasn't arrived yet, so after repeated attempts to email and phone the seller, I started a case on their resolution centre. Never having done that before, I was nervous that I hadn't given them ample opportunity to respond so I gave them one last call. Lo and behold, they answered. They were not very forthcoming and kept making excuses about it never happening before, etc. Then they said they would ring the Post Office and call me back first thing (which they never did!). As her last remark, she said it had been very hectic because she was due to have a baby in a couple of weeks - red rag to a bull. It was all I could do to stop myself shouting something nasty down the phone at her. I won't type what I was thinking, but I guess anyone in a similar position to me knows darn well what it was! I did't realise being pregnant was on the list of reasons that ebay provides for non-delivery of items. Hmmm... So poor old Mungo got the brunt of it when he got home. I started off by saying I was feeling a bit uneasy, a bit jumpy and when I started to talk I just grabbed him and started crying into his chest. It doesn't help with it being a particular time in the month, so to speak (which always gets me upset) and I have got an exam tomorrow, so it's all got a bit too much for me.
Home and cars:
No updates.
Studying:
Mary's courses: Childcare, Learning and Development, NVQ Level 3 - half way through number 6 (of 10). Nutrition and Health of School Aged Children, NVQ Level 2 - finished studying and half way through revision - exam date is 16th September - tomorrow!! Mungo's courses: M255 (Java Programming) – awaiting the results of the fourth and final assignment; exam date is 14th October. MT264 (Designing Applications With Visual Basic) – course starts 3rd October.
We are awaiting our social worker to return from holiday to advise us if there has been any movement on four possibilities we are looking at. Mary was almost in the papers and on TV in the last couple of days following requests for people who are adopting. The newspaper reporter didn't ring back and the TV people decided to go with someone who had already adopted. Oh well, maybe another day; it was very exciting at the time though!
Tuesday PM: Last night I had a bit of a wobbler. Three things happened that made me get upset and made me feel like the universe was rubbing my face in it for being childless. 1). After the excitement I had with nearly being famous yesterday, I spent the afternoon thinking that it was flaming typical that a family with children was being chosen over someone without childen. It's hard enough being at the bottom of the 'child pile', but to be turned down for being childless wasn't really very helpful of the TV people, they didn't think that one through. 2). I gave away a book I had been given by my nephews when they were really little. It's called, "Pregnancy, Conception and Childbirth." My sister bought it for me when we were trying to conceive. I had tried to give it away on Freecycle a year ir two before but no-one would take it. This time someone did, and when they came to pick it up they asked me if it had been useful. I found myself lying and saying how great it had been. I couldn't tell her the truth. 3). A few minutes later I found myself dealing with this: I bought something from eBay on 30th August and it hasn't arrived yet, so after repeated attempts to email and phone the seller, I started a case on their resolution centre. Never having done that before, I was nervous that I hadn't given them ample opportunity to respond so I gave them one last call. Lo and behold, they answered. They were not very forthcoming and kept making excuses about it never happening before, etc. Then they said they would ring the Post Office and call me back first thing (which they never did!). As her last remark, she said it had been very hectic because she was due to have a baby in a couple of weeks - red rag to a bull. It was all I could do to stop myself shouting something nasty down the phone at her. I won't type what I was thinking, but I guess anyone in a similar position to me knows darn well what it was! I did't realise being pregnant was on the list of reasons that ebay provides for non-delivery of items. Hmmm... So poor old Mungo got the brunt of it when he got home. I started off by saying I was feeling a bit uneasy, a bit jumpy and when I started to talk I just grabbed him and started crying into his chest. It doesn't help with it being a particular time in the month, so to speak (which always gets me upset) and I have got an exam tomorrow, so it's all got a bit too much for me.
Home and cars:
No updates.
Studying:
Mary's courses: Childcare, Learning and Development, NVQ Level 3 - half way through number 6 (of 10). Nutrition and Health of School Aged Children, NVQ Level 2 - finished studying and half way through revision - exam date is 16th September - tomorrow!! Mungo's courses: M255 (Java Programming) – awaiting the results of the fourth and final assignment; exam date is 14th October. MT264 (Designing Applications With Visual Basic) – course starts 3rd October.
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