How Disappointing

You know, this last week, I have read blogs that different friends have, and funny enough, two or three of them referred to 'waiting'. Yes. I am waiting. But I didn't think they really related to me as I 'expected' to wait for three weeks for Authentication of our dossier, and it has only been a week.

Our homestudy was sent to our agency on Friday, October 26. I emailed them on Monday, October 30, and asked that they let me know if they had received the dossier and our money. It was alot of money that I did not want going missing in the mail, and also, our dossier could not go to Ethiopia, unless the money arrived. I did not hear back from them. That Friday, I called and asked them to ask our facilitator to send me an email letting me know where our file was and what was happening. Again, I heard nothing that day or Monday of this week.

The ironic thing is, there was a valid reason for wanting to know what the routine was once the dossier arrived at our agency. It was because I had no idea if a dossier was going to get into their office and be popped into the mail again for Ottawa, for Authentication immediately, or if there was work to be done on it before it could go on.

I could just envision it sitting on a 'In Pile' in someone's office, for days! I can handle that - But if it was going to happen, I wanted to mentally prepare myself to add another week to our expected three week wait, which is what we are told to anticipate when it comes to the Authentication process.

Today, my friend Corrie, sent me an email asking if I had got our dossier back from Authentication yet. Nope! She and I are on the same timeline; we are about 1 day apart, which is really exciting! Her family has already adopted twins who are 1 1/2 and are adopting a little boy and girl next time. It would be very cool if we were able to have our children in the transition house at the same time! Even cooler if we ended up travelling at the same time.

When I got back to her, I found out that her dossier, which arrived at the agency the day before mine, was *already* back from Authentication!! How cool was that!! That means she got an Authentication in ONE week!!

Hearing *that* got me on the phone. Now I *needed* to know WHERE MY DOSSIER WAS!!!! Had it left? Was it enroute? Was it back? What??? I called the agency and got our facilitator, and she told me that she had sent me an email on October 30. What???!! I did not receive any email!!!

They needed a missing document! What!? I had sent my paperwork in two months ago, so that I would NOT have this happen!! I wanted all the creases worked out *before* our homestudy made it there, so there were no hold ups! Thank the Lord, Corrie emailed me today, or I would have waited til the end of the week, before I would have contacted the agency again!!!! AAACCKKK!!

So, thankfully, the only document they were missing was a photo of the girls' room!!! I told her that she *had* that picture! It was the little boys' room and would be decorated for the girls, and the boys would move out when we had the girls come home! So, now she said she had all she needed and our file could be sent to Ottawa!!! (this is me screaming in frustration)

How disappointing!! We lost a week. Not a big deal it seems. But yes! A week is a lot when you could be waiting another 15 months to bring them home!!! Every minute counts! And especially when it was a 'missing' email or an unanswered phone call that could have solved the problem and we might have had our file in Ethiopia this week TOO!! So now our three weeks count down begins again; probably tomorrow, by the time they get the file in the mail!

Okay, my rant is done, and I feel a bit better now. Just keep on waiting.... *grin* There is a reason for every wait! I know, I know. I keep on telling myself this. And I am trusting God for a *speedy* turn around like Corrie got!!!

"But these things I plan won't happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, be patient! For it will surely take place. It will not be late by a single day." Habakkuk 2:3