What's Up Wednesday

What's Up Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk.  Head over to Jaime's page for links to find out what's up with everyone else. Here's What's Up with me.
What I'm Reading
This week I read Allegiant by Veronica Roth. I liked it okay, but didn't enjoy it nearly as much as Divergent. I did a longer post about it for the YA book club on Monday. Be forewarned though, that post contains lots of spoilers. 
What I'm Writing
I'm still working on my revision/rewrite of The Evolution of Emily. I'm not quite keeping up with NaNo standards (plus this is a rewrite, not a first draft). But I did revise five more chapters this week. I added a very fun new twist that I think will make the story a lot stronger. 
What Inspires Me Right Now

Everyone doing NaNo. Even though I'm not participating, knowing that so many other people are writing right now has helped pushed me to spend more time writing. So thank you to all those hard working writers out there sprinting towards 50k words. And good luck.
What Else I've Been Up To
Not a whole lot. I'm busy, but with very mundane things like writing, working, and socializing. Last week, I briefly mentioned that I'm in the process of trying to adopt, and got a lot of comments about that. So today, I'll talk more about that. Since it is something I'm up to, even if nothing is happening on that front this minute.

Back in the summer of 2012, I got super sick. I spent a couple months in the hospital fighting to stay alive. Thankfully, I didn't die. But I did loose all my reproductive organs in an emergency surgery. So having biological children isn't an option, and hasn't been for a little over a year now.

My husband and I discussed the various adoption options, and quickly decided foster care adoption was the path to parenthood we wanted to take. We then made the decision that since we are planning to adopt a child or sibling group from state care, we would work with the state, and not a private adoption agency.

I started thinking this was a bad idea a few months ago, but we're still slugging through the system. We finished all of our required training back in February. So for the past nine months, the home study has been our next step. The home study is still our next step. While he have now been assigned to a social worker, we haven't actually met her yet. And I've given up all hope of our home study being scheduled any time this year.

We could still break down and hire a private agency to help speed things along a bit. But at this point I'm trying to be patient. I was very sick a year ago, and had a lot of health problems that had nothing to do with my reproduction. So the elongated adoption process has given me more time to heal. I actually think I could handle chasing around a couple of kiddos now.

So in answer to the what else I've been up to lately questions -- a whole lot of waiting. And when I do finally get my home study complete, I'll be able to start the next round of even more waiting.
So What's Up With You?