Feast of St Gerard - Sunday Oct 16
Since my last journal, I'm feeling a lot better. We filled out the new forms to expand our license and our social worker came over yesterday to review them and also look at our new home. It passed... :) We will also be getting a dog in the next couple of weeks...looking forward to that.
My husband and I attend a monthly support group meeting for adoption/foster care and the last meeting was help this past Wednesday. Our agency is Catholic Charities and if you haven't heard, they are going through a lawsuit with DCFS as a result of the new civil union law that was passed (ie California and Illinois included and others). Although the meeting was very informative, it was also an eye opener for us too. We thought that by opening up our license to foster care, we would have a better chance of parenting but after speaking to our social worker afterwards, it doesn't seem that way. I just feel like every time we are trying to look at other avenues of becoming parents, the doors slam shut. Very discouraging. So...it got me thinking about pursuing conception using donor eggs or by some miracle, using our own.
My niece got married last year and got pregnant a couple of months after. I had given her various info before and after she got married about getting pregnant. One of the items I sent her was a few pamphlets on St Gerard and a medal. Well, she and her husband did the Novena this time last year and now they have a daughter who is almost three months. They swear that it was the Novena that brought their daughter Caterina. She has been reminding about St Gerard's feast day (today, Oct 16) for the last several weeks. So, my husband and I are going to do, beginning tomorrow. It lasts for nine days. If anyone is interested on how it works, here is the link: http://www.saintgerard.com/nineday.html. There is nothing to lose. Let's all try it and maybe we will get our miracles! Even if you are not Catholic, do the Novena.
Have a wonderful day ahead Ladies!
Teresa (aka Fiorianna, my future daughter's name - Fiori meaning flower in Italian and Anna was my Mom's name. My Mom had an awesome green thumb and loved flowers too)
My husband and I attend a monthly support group meeting for adoption/foster care and the last meeting was help this past Wednesday. Our agency is Catholic Charities and if you haven't heard, they are going through a lawsuit with DCFS as a result of the new civil union law that was passed (ie California and Illinois included and others). Although the meeting was very informative, it was also an eye opener for us too. We thought that by opening up our license to foster care, we would have a better chance of parenting but after speaking to our social worker afterwards, it doesn't seem that way. I just feel like every time we are trying to look at other avenues of becoming parents, the doors slam shut. Very discouraging. So...it got me thinking about pursuing conception using donor eggs or by some miracle, using our own.
My niece got married last year and got pregnant a couple of months after. I had given her various info before and after she got married about getting pregnant. One of the items I sent her was a few pamphlets on St Gerard and a medal. Well, she and her husband did the Novena this time last year and now they have a daughter who is almost three months. They swear that it was the Novena that brought their daughter Caterina. She has been reminding about St Gerard's feast day (today, Oct 16) for the last several weeks. So, my husband and I are going to do, beginning tomorrow. It lasts for nine days. If anyone is interested on how it works, here is the link: http://www.saintgerard.com/nineday.html. There is nothing to lose. Let's all try it and maybe we will get our miracles! Even if you are not Catholic, do the Novena.
Have a wonderful day ahead Ladies!
Teresa (aka Fiorianna, my future daughter's name - Fiori meaning flower in Italian and Anna was my Mom's name. My Mom had an awesome green thumb and loved flowers too)
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