ICLW Welcome & Updates

Hello fellow ICLWer's and welcome to Fearlessly Infertile. I'm Christa, soon-to-be 29 on Monday!) and soon-to-be going through my second IVF (in September). Unfortunately we had a miscarriage after our first IVF cycle in January. Since then we've moved cross-country and had other things to worry about besides making babies (like my unemployment denial and appeal). We will also hopefully be soon-to-be foster parents. Brandon and I attended an Open House meeting last week where the coordinators were excited to have us at first. When I mentioned our upcoming IVF they told us that they usually don't allow people to become foster parents if they're going through a major "life change" (i.e. pregnancy). Still, we received a phone call a few days later saying they wanted to come visit our home and talk with us more about becoming foster parents. The appointment is scheduled for TODAY and hopefully they will make a decision today as well. If we're allowed to get licensed it will still be December/January before we're placed with a child. I'll post an update after the meeting.

As I said earlier, Monday the 26th is my birthday and I'm holding a giveaway to celebrate. Check it out here if you'd like to enter. Deadline is midnight EST on Sunday the 25th. I also plan on having another giveaway at the beginning of August so check back. Hopefully my giveaways will become a more regular thing on my blog!

Welcome again and I look forward to seeing a lot of new faces (and hopefully a few new followers) around here!

**UPDATE** The foster meeting went pretty well. The lady (G) explained that we can only do foster care or adoption, we can't get licensed to do both. So before we get licensed we would have to make a choice. Doing foster care would mean no chance of adoption, either through an agency or through the state, unless we decide to stop doing foster care. Furthermore, we won't find out whether they'll even allow us to proceed with foster care until Friday or Monday. Bummer, I had hoped on finding out today. So I guess we wait some more. In the meantime Brandon and I have decided to ditch our plans to go to Six Flags New England and instead plan a trip to Maine for my birthday. We'll be leaving on Monday (don't worry, I'll announce the winner of the giveaway before we go) and we'll come back Wednesday. We plan to do some wildlife watching (mainly looking for moose) and some bass fishing and just some general relaxing. I'm really looking forward to it!

PS- I also want to thank whoever put me in for LFCA due to the foster parenting issue. That was very thoughtful!