Bump!

Take a right on Maple, then a left on Oak St.  Follow until the ground gets rocky.  Here you will reach your destination....bump in the road.  This is how my directions seem to read lately!  :)

I finally spoke with our case worker last week, and set up an appointment to meet with her on Aug 11.  She explained how she had been out of the office for a bit, and that her husband had a malignant tumor on his eye and is going through chemo/radiation now.  I hate this for her, I can't imagine if this were to happen to Bill. 

I called our local Lutheran Services and found out that they are different from the agency we are working with now.  I had asked a couple of times at our agency that I heard they had offices in Marion, and they always said no.  After talking to a friend who assured me that she had talked to a case worker in Marion, I called the Marion office.  While they are a Lutheran agency, they are indeed different....though they do the same stuff.  Our agency is Lutheran Child and Family Services while the one closer to home is Lutheran Social Services of Illinois.  Ok then.  The lady I talked to was very nice and personable.  I was pretty much told that if we weren't happy with our agency then we needed to tell them and call LSSI back and they could ask for our file and we could go from there.  I have been so back and forth on this.  I really just don't have any "feeling" about our current agency, and it's so far away.  God forbid if something should happen to our case worker's husband, there's only one other case worker there who's already overloaded.  It's not necessarily anything that our agency has done personally, but I think we should just have that "feeling" that we're in the right place.   *Sigh*

I know we will make the right decision, but getting there seems to be a challenge!  Just another bump in the road.  I've never been great at reading maps, but luckily I have Bill by my side, who is a great navigator!  When this is all over and done and our house isn't so quiet any more, I will wonder why I fretted so much about this!

I hope all of you who are reading this have a wonderful day and that you will find the right path that will take you off of your bumpy road, whatever it may be!