Paperwork, paperwork and more paperwork!

Whew....the chasing of the papers continues. Hopefully I'll have caught them all my next Friday and be ready to turn them all in. We will attend a full day class on March 9 and then have our homestudy on March 14. If all papers are in and everything's a go, we'll be activitated around March 20 and ready to find our match! Wow!

Last week I called the Hamilton, IN county sheriff's office/jail to find out how to get our background check done. They said for both of us to come in anytime with our IDs and fill our the paperwork. We went together on Sat., filled out the forms and were told we could stop by anytime after 8 a.m. Sunday to pick them up. Monday, I drove out to the office and was told they couldn't find our paperwork anywhere and that if we did have a background check ready to be picked up, a woman named Cheryl would have called. So, I again filled out the forms, again dropped them off and am now waiting for the secret code word from Cheryl to come get them. I'm sure all this is to teach me patience we'll need as parents. :-)

Going to the sheriff's office/jail was an interesting experience and a place I hope to never visit for anything more than an adoption background check. Dark tinted windows with shadowy figures and disembodied voices crackling through speakers was a little unsettling. There were people coming to visit inmates including a woman with 2 little girls (I'd guess 3 and 5) who were coming to see "daddy". Whew....with all the Tim and I have gone through to try to be parents, it's hard to see people who are parents and are raising their children in a less than ideal way. It's sad that those little girls know what a jail is and how to get checked in to visit their daddy behind bars.

Paperwork yet to come.... Tim and I both need to write papers to answer questions about each other. I need to write a letter to prospective birthmothers....that's a tough one...what do I say to such an important person in our lives? We both need to have our physicals done next week including TB tests. I also need to gather about 50 pictures together of different areas of our lives. Hmmm..which piece do I work on next?