Happy Father's Day

As we slowly woke up this morning and sat in bed drinking tea and coffee I couldn't help but think about how life could be a year from now!  We could be celebrating our first Father's Day, like all of the first time dads that I know.
I took the dog out for a walk and bumped into my downstairs neighbour and his son getting ready for a bike and I couldn't help but smile as the young son announced "Me and my daddy are going to ride our bikes."

I've been compelled to send out various Father's Day wishes on Facebook today and even phone my own Dad is St Lucia although they don't celebrate Father's Day on the same day.

I'm sure everyday with your child is special, but on THIS special day I'm even more eager to our welcome little.

The Guardian (not the newspaper)

We had another visit the other day, only four more to go!!! Three over the next three weeks and the final one, yes, the FINAL one just after we get back from holiday.  It'll be nice to close this chapter of our journey feeling refreshed.  Still more chapters to go though.

So, in our last visit we finished talking about our pasts and our childhood experience and finally moved on to the present day and the future!! Hooray!!!  The main job was building our 'Eco-gram' or support network.  It was actually fun to do and a good reminder of the friends and support we actually do have.  Our SW also gave us a heads-up as to what our next visit would entail.  Next Friday she'll her with her clip board doing her health and safety check.  No doubt there will be a long list of little jobs that need to be completed to make the flat safe and child-friendly (not that it isn't already!!!)
She's also going to take a look at little one's bedroom and make some recommendations.  At the moment it's a spare-room-come-walk-in-wardrobe so I'm sure she'll have lots to say.

On a more serious note we also discussed briefly the making of will.  Very scary and grown up.  But most thought provoking was the discussion around nominating a guardian for little one just in case something happens to us both.  That got us thinking and lucky we both came to the same conclusion.  Let's just hope our intended agrees.

Seeing the plus as well as the minus

Yet again it's been a little while between posts and that is because pretty much nothing has happened apart from having another meeting cancelled and our approval panel date set back by a month because of the Olympics of all things.  Our social worker agency is based right next to the Olympics village and it appears it is going to effect all aspects of their work.  It's really annoying as we were so excited about our panel date and the prospect of meeting our little one.  But now things are going to be delayed and the poor little cherub will be spending at least an extra month in a foster home bonding with someone else.  Surely that isn't fair, on any one.  I know they are doing their best as their priority has always got to be the child but sometimes it makes you wonder.  Our next meeting with our social worker is next Monday so let's hope something fantastic happens.
On the plus side though I suppose it does give us an extra month to make sure we are even more ready than we think we are.  This must be what it feels like when an expectant mother is overdue.

We went to the fun fair with some friends yesterday and won a little purple monster, the latest addition to little one's fluffy friends.  Freddie now joins Bertie, Rudolph, Worth, and Mr Strong.

Who knows how big the entourage will get to by the time little one gets here.  The good thing is that when we finally get to do our live story book little one will have lots of smiling friends waving back at them.