I've been asking SO MANY questions of our caseworker at the adoption agency. She assures me my questions are not idiotic. She also assures me that I am not a terrible pain in her tuckus. I choose to believe her because she is so very sweet and conscientious that if I thought I were causing her stress, I would feel even more intrusive than I do when I send her yet ANOTHER e-mail!
I found out via one e-mail or another and a phone conversation that I have been dreading several steps to the dossier process that do not actually exist. Ha! Isn't that so like me?! Reading too much into the very detailed (and clear!) instructions I have been given only to find out I created a process in my mind much more onerous than the one that actually needs completed.
I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off me! I keep thinking to myself, 'That's it?! Are we sure?! Man! We're closer than I thought!"
I so want to be able to put the finishing touches on our dossier (everything we have control over which would be all but the clearance from USCIS) while my husband is home so we can complete this huge step together and I can send him into his last phase of training with the knowledge that everything is well in hand.
After all I learned today, I think that is completely possible. Yea!
Thanks so much for your continued support and interest in our journey. We are moving along and I feel like in the next few weeks we'll be making big strides to finally be waiting instead of paper chasing. Stay tuned!
Hi Friend! OK, your first paragraph totally cracked me up!!! :-) Too funny. So glad things are coming together!!! Woohoo! (And you'll have to tell me what steps you thought you needed...maybe I can join in your celebrating?!?) Continuing to pray for your process. Sweet blessings, Amy
Posted by: Amy Ivey | April 22, 2009 at 01:46 AM
Oh, I'm sure you knew better than I did, Amy!
When my husband and I started researching adoption, our search wasn't restricted to Ethiopia. We settled on it quickly, but not before I had read everything I could get my hands on from other places. I, for some unknown reason, had in my mind that EVERY piece of paper in our dossier had to have a seal or be authenticated. Can you imagine!? No wonder I've been freaked out so much!
Granted, some things do have to be run by certain clerks of court and such, but not nearly to the degree I'd believed just a couple days ago.
yea!
Posted by: Guard Wife | April 22, 2009 at 08:58 AM