Paper chasin

This is a pic of my niece Gennean & thomas giving a thumbs up because we made it back from trip #1 safely! She came to pick us up a SJ airport & she along with the SJ airport were wonderful to see! Even though we've been back since early November, i love to look at these pictures to remember it was real!

in adoption, you'll often hear of the paper chase.. we have been done with our documents for awhile now until i got word that the court needs 2 documents + another document that i thought would be here by now. So that threw me in a tail spin..actually i collected my thoughts & got down to business...making calls, reviewing documents, etc. I worked in social services for 6 years before i quit to be with my little thomas & thru this adoption, i've kept those skills so sharp! I've learned new skills in new areas that i'm thankful for too. Anyway...i've been trying to contact the immigration office for a document that i need - we cannot get a court date until i obtain that document. Well, no one at the local immigration office responded to any of my contact...i sent 2 e-mails, 1 urgent & i even faxed a request thinking it would fall into someones hands..so finally i figured out how to make an appointment & i go tomorrow. Greg reminded me that everything for us has going extremely smooth so this can be our 1 snafoo..is that a word? So this paper chasin idea is when you literally feel like you are chasing paper everywhere...that's what i've been doing this week. Now, the good news is that a couple who had their 1st trip the same time as our received a court date yesterday. If we had all of our documents together i'd imagine we'd be next but this is going to hold us up i think. I wouldn't mind so much if they were documents that were new that i needed but 2 of them are documents i already sent in that they're asking for another original which means, another notary & then going to Sacramento to get it apostilled (state seal). Hmmmmm...all good things worth the wait & work.