HOME STUDY ADDENDUM IS FINALLY HERE!

WHEW! After over two weeks of trying to get our home study addendum done and in our hands, it finally arrived this morning at 9 a.m. through UPS. It had been supposedly mailed last Monday through USPS but it never arrived. I arranged to have another set of notarized addendumed picked up by UPS and delivered to me on Saturday. Well, come the end of the day on Saturday, it still hadn't arrived. I was emotionally shot. It finally arrived this morning and I learned that the reason it wasn't delivered on Saturday is because the receptionist at our home study agency didn't check the box for Saturday delivery. The important thing now is that it is here. Eddie is scanning it at work into a PDF file and we will be e-mailing it tonight to HOGL. I haven't heard anything from them in about two weeks. Please pray that we hear something from them soon. I am hoping that the hold up with getting our power of attorney is that they are waiting on our home study addendum. Please pray that we get our POA this week so that we can get it signed and notarized.

ADDENDUM STILL NOT HERE! ARGH!

Well, it has been over a week since our home study addendum was completed by the social worker but we still don't have it in our hands. It was mailed on Monday but it has apparently gotten lost in the mail. It may still come in the mail tomorrow, but I don't know that for sure, so I contacted our social worker and arranged for us to pay for UPS to pick up another set of notarized documents. I scheduled for Next Day Air so that I will receive it by noon tomorrow. I really want to make sure that the children's home in Taiwan has it by Monday morning their time, which will be Sunday night our time. It just seems to be one glitch or hickup after another. I know there are a lot of hurdles to jump over before our son is in our arms, but we seem to be tripping over every hurdle we come to. Please pray for smooth sailing for us from this point on. I feel like I am walking on thin ice that can break through at any moment.

HOME STUDY ADDENDUM IS DONE!

I got an e-mail today from our social worker saying that she finished our home study addendum. YAHOO!!!! I don't have it in my hands yet, but I hope to have it in the mail by Monday. As soon as we get it, we send a scanned copy of it on to Home of God's Love so that they can get our home study translated. God has really been working in our adoption of Isaac. I know that God's plan and timing is so perfect. I am such a worrier by nature and it is really hard for me sometimes to just wait and trust that God is going to work everything out. He is really teaching me some valuable lessons with this adoption. Thanks everyone for praying for us and please continue to keep us in your prayers through our journey to Isaac.