What a Rigmarole!! - updated with comment

Rigamoral. Well, apparently my spell checker doesn't think that is a word! Probably I misspelled it. I certainly heard it enough when I was growing up!! It means - what a fuss - or some such meaning.

Update: My dear sister showed me how to spell it! Thank you, Amanda! Now my blogger spellcheck STILL didn't like it, so I went on line to Dictionary.com and this is what they say:

an elaborate or complicated procedure

Is that NOT what I have had to go through - and may still be going to continue to got through for the proof of self employment of my husband!

Today, I was quite happy to get a reply from Jill, at Kidslink. How prompt is that! She had already received our dossier and gone through it. She said 'it looks pretty good!' Now, you know me - I am trying to see if she means: "your chances to adopt look pretty good based on what you have sent me" OR "your paper work looks 'okay' - not perfect, but 'pretty good'". LOL! I have come to the conclusion that she is saying that based on her experience 'we look pretty qualified to adopt'. LOL at myself!!

Anyway, there was just one thing that had to be taken care of. Of course, it was the one thing I was concerned about: finances! As a self employed person you cannot write your own employment letter. You have to get your accountant to write it. Well, what happens when you *are* the accountant!! Thankfully she suggested we get 'an' accountant to write a letter. So I got on the phone to our payroll accountant and asked them if they would be willing to write up a letter stating we had been in business since 1987 and what our profit was up to this point, this year.

That started a whole 'nother mess! The accountants assistant told me that I would have to find something that verified having a business since 1987. Income tax? Nope! I burn those as soon as I can. I hate the extra pile of papers... Anyway, I called Revenue Canada and asked them what they had on file and she told me she was just the phone person. I would have to send a fax to the department requesting they dig up old papers. ICK!! She was very nice, but couldn't really help me.

I was not willing to make this last any longer than a day or so, so I had to look for an alternate route. I climbed down into the crawlspace....

After crawling around in the dust and spiders and piles of 'stuff' down there, I found the box of files from the last six years. I was praying I might have something that showed 'something'! I found the 2001 files. But nothing from 1987! I clamboured back up the step out of the basement and called the accountant assistant again.

I told her I couldn't find anything that went back to 1987. What could we do? We had a few ideas and then I had the bright idea of Workers Compensation Board - they must have records. And we both said at the same time, "ANYTHING" - It sounded like a word from a song that I can't remember the name of: "Annnything. I'll do anything for you." I think it was a love song or something. Well, the tune reverbrated in my head as we both said, "Anything." *laugh*

Off to my office I went. I dug in my old filing cabinet for any letters from those insurance companies. Anything to show our company had been around way back when! I am sure the accountant's assistant *loved* me today!!! LOL!! Seriously. First I found an old contract dating 1997 - that was better than 2001. So I faxed that off to her. Then I found a bill with a 'paid' stamp on it - that looked more official. So I faxed that off to her. Next I found a copy of a job application that Ray wrote in 2002 - this letter had a resume attached that spoke of 1987. I sent those two. But I was not certain yet.

Then the best thing yet *grin* - for years I have kept this *old* draft of a resume that Ray wrote in ?? who knows when. Why you ask?? Who knows!! But today it came in handy!! So now I will keep it for the next time I have to prove we have been around forever!! I should mention that as well as being a *very rough copy* it also had some little person's doodling all over the page! Very nice!

But you can tell that it authentic!! LOL! It is hand written by Ray and makes reference to 1987 as the start date and our company name and it just seems to be enough to convince them. I even told her that he was at work so she knows that he didn't quickly draft it up! LOL! Trust me, this accountant 'does it by the book'. If I don't have enough *proof* they will not write the date as 1987. And a company that has been around for 20 years looks a lot better than one that has been around for six years!

There is more to this faxing story than I am saying. Suffice it to say, by the time I was done faxing it was after hours and I am sure she will walk in to find a mountain of papers! But hopefully out of all of that they will have enough information to write an informed letter from an accountant. The only thing our dossier was missing! What a fiasco!