Poor Me Who Hates to Wait

I had a humourous phone call this morning! Yesterday, I had sent off all the papers proving our company has been in existance since 1987 (one unofficial paper showed this) and others that showed 1997 or 1998. So our letter from 'an accountant' should state, at least, 1997. This morning, first thing, (of course! which prospective adoptive parent ever WAITS!) I called the accountant's office and asked to speak to Geri. This is my conversation:

"Hi! Can I please speak to Geri?" said in a bright voice

"She's not in today," the receptionist said.

(pause on my end) and then a sickly, "Uugghh"

"When will she be in?"

"Monday," she replied cheerfully, not realizing what bad news she is relaying to me.

"Oooohhhh!!" a little more depressed

"No, actually, Tuesday! It's a long weekend!!" she happily remembered.

"UUUUUHHHHHHH," long, louder and drawn out - totally involuntary!! LOL!

I then proceeded to explain my sickly sounding groans. "We are trying to adopt and Geri is supposed to be drafting a letter for the accountant to sign, so we can send it to our agency."

She then proceeded to make me feel even better (not!), "Oh, Gordon won't be in til Wednesday. So he can sign it then."

"Oh! (pause) Great! (pause) Okaaaayyyy. So. I guess I'll just .... wait quietly." This all said with resignation. Poor me.

And she had a little laugh.

I hung up the phone and thought, "Okay, so now I am *forced* to wait quietly, that will give me four days to get my school planning finished." I am an optomistic person! *smile*

You see, I was in the middle of organizing school books and everyone's school schedule yesterday, when I got the unexpected email from Kidslink telling me of the needed letter of employment from 'an accountant'. Do you think I kept school planning going? Not on your life!! I immediately dropped everything (actually there were already piles of books all over the kitchen floor!) and began making phone calls and trying to find documentation.

Now that I can't do anything to move this financial 'boat' along any quicker, I guess I will go back to my school planning. The thing I *loved* about this whole summer is, this adoption came up at the beginning of July and I had all my boys at camps throughout the summer. That meant I had lots of blocks of time where there were only between 1 and 4 kids home! I was able to do so much.

And the times when I had all my paperwork done but had to wait for the educational seminars to be held, so we could get our social worker assigned, I filled with projects that were waiting to be done. Anytime I was 'waiting' I had rooms to paint, school to plan, journals to finish with the boys from our California trip etc. No end to the amount of things I have to get done before school starts. Therefore, it is disappointing that this one little hurdle will drag itself into next week - the week that school should be starting! I was hoping to have all *my* paperchasing out of the way before the school year. Oh well. I can't imagine all those people that work full time and don't have the opportunity to work on there adoptions fulltime! I am blessed!

So off I go to 'real life' again. Until next week. Or when the social worker calls....