Updates

I've been rather busy lately and haven't had time to write any clever blog posts. Well, maybe they're not so clever... Anyhow I thought I'd bring my friends & family up to speed on what's been going on. The adoption application process is moving forward; we had our first interview with our home assessment writer yesterday, which lasted a couple of hours and was here in our home. She took a tour of our place and sketched out the floor plan (?) before diving into the interview. It was some basic questions about why we want to adopt, our family background, our experiences growing up, medical issues and so on. Some of the questions were on the personal side and we've been told beforehand that they'll keep coming. We meet with our assessment worker three times next week, after which she'll make a recommendation (yes or no to becoming adoptive parents). From there it goes to a committee which will make the final decision either in May or June. So, hopefully by then we will have some happy news. It's exciting but scary at the same time, so please remember us in your prayers.

The second piece of news is that next month I'm going down to Three Hills (which is in central Alberta) for my convocation at PBI. That's right, I'm graduating from Prairie Bible College. Well, not quite yet; you see, they have three grad dates (April, June and December) but only one grad ceremony. And since I'm going to be finished in December and they allow student with a few outstanding credits to graduate, I get to wear a funny hat and robe on the 25th of April. It all seems so surreal, and so sudden too since I found out by accident that I qualify to participate in commencement. I had called Prairie a few weeks ago with a question and casually asked if distance ed student have a grad and, well, the rest is history. I feel a sense of satisfaction and relief that the light's finally at the end of the tunnel, but that also means I have to pick up the pace and get my remaining courses done. It's easy to procrastinate when you're taking correspondence, and so I'm concentrating on finishing everything on time - which is why I've been so busy lately.

Finally, on a depressing note, the first day of spring arrived last Friday. It's depressing because it still looks and feels very much like winter. I'm sure my friends & family overseas as enjoying the blooming flowers while we're still shoveling. If Colin & Galya are reading this right now they may be tempted to e-mail a picture of whatever is growing on the base they're living at. I swear, if you guys do I'm mailing a freezer full of what's in my back yard straight to you...