Big News!

In case you have been wondering why I have been such a slacker the past month and a half...... we bought a house! I didnt want to share the news until it was final, but we closed last Thursday. I have been so nervous and stressed out about the move mainly because we will be leaving our county so will be getting all new service providers for Leightyn. I have been doing endless research and as much preperation as possible, but now we know for sure when we will be moved and where, I still feel like I am starting from scratch. It really is amazing the differance in services between one county and another, but I knew this going in just from speaking to other parents in the local DS group when Leightyn was first born. My main priority was to make sure that she does not lose any services. Where we are moving is a smaller county then where we are now but the services seem to be close enough to the same. I am hoping since the providers have a smaller case load that the interactions will be more personal rather than just a number on a wait list or a family seen once a month for an hour. There are some areas where the resources are not quite what we had here but we are close enough to the "big" county that it should all work out. Off to get some packing done while the little one sleeps but I will keep you all updated on the move and how the transfer of her services goes. Look forward to much frustration in the beginning stories but hopefully the resolutions will be helpful to any other parent preparing for a move. One good thing that has come out of our move so far is that the county we are moving to is looking into educating local real estate agents on at least the basics of what services they have to offer familys. I had to do all of this research on my own, which I would have done anyways, but it would have been nice to know the big differances when looking at the homes in the area regarding school district and such and who better to know this info than the realtors. Thanks to a suggestion from us it will hopefully be a little easier for future movers to at least get the basic info about services offered and contact information so they can get all of their questions answered! Again I apologize for not posting as often lately but unfortunately it will probably take me a couple more weeks still to get back to a "normal" posting schedule!