J.K.Richard

Okay.

So I need to make a lifebook.

This will be a biographical narrative (with pictures—more like a scrapbook) about me and my life and life with my Liztm. It’s the first thing a child’s caseworker will see and likely the first thing a prospective adoptee child will see.

I’m fookin’ stuck. Talk about writers block — and [...]

Liz and I finished our adoptive parenting (or BRIDGE Resource Family) training tonight. 21 hours of resource parent training and 6 hours of behavioral crisis management training.

Our last class was a live panel — I had hoped for more people on the panel — but was grateful for the two that did show up [...]

…to publicly announce:

Liz (my Liztm) and I are in the process of adoption through Oklahoma’s DHS. We finished our third foster/adoption parenting class this evening (6 more to go!) and had our fingerprints scanned earlier in the afternoon.

It’s a process for sure. We still have our home-study to complete which will probably occur post parenting [...]