Who has the ball?

Well it is out of our hands at this point! Like it ever was!!! We have completed all the paperwork we can at this point and have paid our fees. Now we get to wait for our Homestudy to be scheduled and once that is done we will then be waiting on our federal paperwork to come back and then we might get to see some light at the end of the tunnel.

There are so many other things going on right now that it feels like a huge mountain (of paper) has been lifted off of us and now we can focus on a few other things that need to be attended to, WT, the house, each other, the family, our friends, our jobs... I have to attribute our success to the "queen of organization" - Connie! I am not poking fun, I am giving her all the credit in the world - she is the BEST! While the process thus far has only sparked a few disagreements and a few cross words, it has been her ability to keep things straight and being the driving force that things got done as easily as it has!

Well that is all from the land of wind and weather.

Are we "healthy"?

So we have completed our medical exam - what a trial that was. We had more blood drawn than we typically donate and our family doc said that we looked healthier than most the parents that come into his office so he thought we were good to go. The most difficult part of the entire process was getting the paperwork done. I think the office staff at the doctor’s office thought we were crazy when we told them all the hoops they were going to have to jump through to get all the correct forms completed. I think they thought we would come in for a physical and they would sign something and away we would go. The entire process took more than 6 hours of your time (no telling how many on theirs) and 3 different trips to the office (not including the two to the health department to have the TB test done).

I hope that is the last of the medical exams - I am not that crazy about going to the doctor when I am healthy and sitting in the waiting room with the masses of plague ridden sick folk that should be there. But with our figures and every other part of our bodies crossed that could we got out of there without catching some form of the flu or only God knows what.

It has been a very difficult week for me - emotional ups and downs. The stress of the process is not what I expected. Connie seems to be handling things much better than me. She is a rock and just soldiers through the mind numbing process and endless piles of paperwork - two copies of this five copies of that - I don't know how she keeps it straight!

Note to our "Little guy":
You are so lucky and you don't even know it. Your mom is the greatest! She is the strongest person I have ever known and we are both so lucky to have her in our lives! I can't wait to see her with you, the two most important people in my life and who I love so very much. Well signing off for now - Love, Dad.