Step one Complete????

The First Step... What is the first step? The first step is what some refer to as your first trimester "First Paper Trimester" of our adoption pregnancy. Yes I am tankin on the pounds . Pounds of paperwork that is. The first step consists of writing and then telling your life story to the Social worker of your choice .We chose the lovely Rachel Crews. We worked with her when we were blessed with Maggie. She is great. Step ones means you will need to gather birth and marriage certificates. Figure out a budget and your net worth.(nice economy to be doing that) Get all the Dr's to quickly fill out physical forms for everyone.The best thing was we can now say that we have seen the inside holding cells of our local police dept. Not because we were arrested but because this is where they do the fingerprinting necessary for international adoption. So yes Gary, Samantha and I are all "IN THE SYSTEM". Last week we thought all right we are done with step one the Homestudy is complete. So off to INS approval we think. But NO Tiffany's fingerprints were rejected. Was this because she has a record? Had she been living a lie. NO it's becaue in our fine little town the guy doing the fingerprionts also is a public school bus driver and was in a hurry. So again we are waiting. .So although we have made many trips to Rachels home to drop off paperwork so as not to waist even one hour. Here we are waiting. We hear this is the name of the game. Hurry up and wait. Hurry up and wait. A game many of you will certainly understand when I say Tiffany does not hurry up and wait very well. Surely God has a reason for this and in time we will understand.

So praying that this week we will advance on in our paper pregnancy.