The next step brought us to son #1.
After renovating the little house, and my dad passing away, we decided to sell up and buy a house big enough for us, some kids and my mum.
We moved clear across town (which if you knew our community you'd know that clear across town takes about 6 minutes in heavy traffic) and bought a 6 bedroom house that had a fully self contained basement suite for Mum to live in.
It needed work! My husband had about 2 weeks to get the basement suite gutted and completely rebuilt for Mum to move in. She had sold her mobile home and would be moving in with us just two weeks after we moved in. The upstairs of our new home was livable, but the suite was not. It was filthy, and moldy and it had holes in the walls. The bathroom looked like a huge flood had come through and literally left mud in every nook and cranny. Disgusting doesn't even begin to describe the state of that suite!
But my husband being the wonderful jack of all trades that he is, and with some help from some very good friends, one in particular who spent every spare moment she had with us, my hubby got that suite looking and feeling brand new! By gosh it was nicer than my half of the house! LOL But really that's the way it should be when providing your mum with a new home.
It took a few months to get settled after we moved in in June of 2004. We decided it was time to have another pet. So this time we researched and found a breed that was good with children and hypo-allergenic!
It just so happened that we had a friend who was a breeder of these dogs and so we got Haggrid. Haggrid was a beautiful, sweet, loving, cuddly purebred Shih-Tzu.
So, we are all adapting to our new home and enjoying being together. We've had our worker over to approve the home and dog, and update our homestudy with the new information.
On December 12th the phone rang.
I'm so happy to find your blog! We're finally, again, in the waiting-for-a-match stage of adoption. We completed our homestudy this summer, then my husband resigned from his job this fall so everything was put on hold, then just last week he accepted a new job with his same employer so our homestudy had to be amended to reflect that and now we just have to sign it and we're off...again! (How's that for the longest run-on sentence EVER!) Anyway, I just love adoption stories. Thanks for sharing yours!
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