I understand that people make mistakes. We are all human. It happens.
For some reason, though, I keep having instances where people's errors involve money and time. Two things I never seem to have enough of when needed.
Aside from having my paychecks messed up such that I will receive both paychecks owed to me, but not until the 25th of this month, we had a blip today with our adoption money.
I sent our agency a check to pay off the fees between us and our referral. Today, I heard from the agency that the check had been returned. They had called their bank and been told that it appeared I had stopped payment on the check.
Um. Not so much.
I made an immediate call to my credit union to find out how it was that a check written on our home equity line of credit would not have cleared. After some investigation, the representative and I discovered that the teller who ordered my checks had not used the correct account number. I had been sent checks for my savings account. How is that even possible? Quality control? Anyone? Anyone? No?
Okay. They told me they would print off starter checks for me that I could pick up tomorrow. Later, I received instructions from the adoption agency on how the credit union can wire money. I'm going to make them do that first thing in the morning. I kind of think it's the least they can do. Don't you think?
The good news?
I inquired about our referral timeline today and learned that barring any unforeseen circumstances, the "worst case scenario" for receiving our official referral looks like the end of June. That's less than two weeks away! Yea!
I will do better about posting. It's been quite an emotionally draining couple of weeks. I spent last week with my husband and he's 'shipping out' very soon. Sigh. It's going to be a long year. I can't help but feel excited, however, because we have a wonderfully exciting year planned for our family's future.
Glad you're along for the ride!
