What's the Hold Up

When I first started this blog

I promised myself it wouldn't be one of those boring

blogs were all you got was an update of what was happening once of week

or where everyday I was hounding you to help us with a fundraiser.

But as we end our first trimester (yes it has now been over 3 months)

since starting on this journey

 I am finding it harder 

to share things with you that I think you will find uplifting or interesting.

I mean 

It seems silly for me to post

We all went to the doctors today to have physicals so check that off the list.

Or, the psychology reports came back but there was a mistake made on

it so we are waiting for it to be mailed again.

I could post

Had everything notarized today and it was $310

then I found out it was all notarized wrong.

See

Not very exciting.

But I do know that there are some of you 

who may be thinking

WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG?

Are they doing anything to get this poor little girl home?

Well

Yes and No.

We do our part as fast as we can

and then we wait, and wait and wait some more for

freed back to see what we need to do next.

Have I every mentioned that 

I HATE WAITING!

It really is not one of my better qualities. 

I was so excited because I thought

we were finally ready to move forward.

I found out that our homestudy was finally 

FINISHED.

That means we can go to Sacramento

and have everything apostilled 

(a fancy word for cost a lot of money to make sure your notary is legit)

I was planning on leaving on Wednesday afternoon 

and making the 8 hour drive to Sacramento

so that I would not have to wait about 2 weeks 

to get everything back.

Then I found out that my homestudy agency 

did not fill out all the extra paperwork 

that has to go with the homestudy :(

So now

I wait again.

They said they hope they will have it finished 

and ready by Tuesday morning 

but they can't promise anything.

The only thing that keeps me from going insane about this

is the fact that the region we are adopting from

is not accepting any dossiers (all those papers we have to have just right to get an appointment)

right now. 

Not sure why.

Rumor has it too many adoptions this year 

and they don't want to do more than last year

or 

change of authority in her region.

Who knows.

All I know is my hopes of 

traveling in December are quickly fading.

It will most likely be January at the earliest. 

That's just they way things roll 

in the international adoption world. 

So my giant fundraiser that I had planned 

starting Thanksgiving weekend in hopes

that during the fundraiser I would have cute pictures of us

with Carlene to post is not going to happen the way I planned.

So I am going to have to hope and pray it goes over well

anyway without new cute pictures of her.

 Because we do have about $10,000 to raise still before

April or May when we are hoping to bring her home. 

Speaking of fundraisers

Thanks to everyone who participated in the

last one. 

We made $166 from it :)

And if you do want to know more about the day to 

day happenings of our adoption

you should consider following along at

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Operation-Orphan-No-More/148027775296415.

I post the boring updates there more frequently ;)

And because I can't stand when a post doesn't have pictures

here is one of Nevaeh and I from Halloween.

So even though it seems like forever

Remember that next Halloween

Our little one will be forced dressed up like us too.

And I'll have another creepy looking doll (according to my children)

for her too.

Anyone want to suggest what we all should be?