Still not much happening on the adoption front. We did get our first document certified today from a different state. That gold seal is very impressive. Tomorrow we are going to try and drop off some documents to be certified in our state. I am concerned they are going to say they have the wrong notary stamp. I hope not because it will be a hassle to get the right stamp. The boys have their physicals tomorrow. We should be getting our physicals back Friday. Then the homestudy starts Saturday. We are making progress it is just slow.

No news

No news as far as the adoption goes. Today, Z's 8th birthday. We are going to Williamsburg for the weekend. Indoor waterpark should be lots of fun. Last weekend I took lots of pictures of the kids for Christmas cards. I will attach a couple of my favorites.

Physicals

Forgot to mention that we had our physicals, December 5. Glad to have that out of the way. We should be able to pick up the paperwork next week. We have to wait for the HIV test to come back negative.

Trip to Charlotte

Dh and I had a nice overnight trip to Charlotte. We arrived at the hotel at 11:30 last night and we up by 6:00. We went to the Application Support Center for our fingerprints. We did get our fingerprints but I don't have much faith in mine. The lady had difficulty getting good prints of my fingers. I am really hoping I don't have to go back. Plus, we were told my name could be changed when I got fingerprinted. No, the lady wouldn't do it under any circumstances. She wasn't even happy about me asking about it. So now our 171-H will probably come back wrong. You can't seem to get simple answers from people working for the government. Actually you can't get answers at all. We will just have to wait and see what happens.

We are doing the Happy Dance!

Yahoo! We are happy today. We are being fingerprinted Wednesday, December 6 in Charlotte. I can't believe it. That is exactly a week after we sent in our application. God is so good!

Peace

I was really upset yesterday about our dumb mistakes. I have peace now. It is all going to happen in God's time so getting upset doesn't do any good. If and when we get Grace is all up to God so I need to just chill and let him take control. Sometimes I get too uptight about the process and want everything done now. It just doesn't work that way. God has a plan for Grace and us. We just need to let it happen. Our homestudy probably won't be completed until the beginning of January. As long as we can still get fingerprinted in the next couple of weeks we will be fine. We may even be paper ready before we are mentally ready. But if God wants us to get Grace sooner than later than we are all for it, too.

Stupid mistakes

We have made so many dumb mistakes already. In our state it is very difficult to get the 171H quickly. It takes 2 months just to get fingerprinted. Well, we got a call today. Since Grace needs surgery they were going to do our fingerprints Dec. 6. They have only had our application a couple of days. Dumb us, we sent in the wrong amount. So now they have to return our application and we have to reapply. We tried to put a stop on the Fedex package going there but they never did stop it. So now our process is going to be delayed who knows how long because of our dumb mistake. Plus I didn't get the message until tonight, it was left this morning, so now I have to worry about this all weekend. I just hope they will quickly reissue us a new date. It really is unheard of to get one this quickly. I was in shock when I listened to the message. It is going to be a long weekend. I could just kick myself and dh.