Almost there....

Hello everyone.

Well, We met with our independant practitioner & the home study is ready. She is waiting for us to give her a copy of our Interpol & the medical forms.

We had the Interpol done Dec 13 & Canada Post tracking system shows it was received Dec 17. I called the RCMP in Ottawa last tuesday & the voicemail said to leave some information & I could expect a call back in 2-3 days. Well, It has now been 5 days & no one has returned my call. Obviously the FEDS don't have the same standards as we do at WCB. They have had our information for more than 1 month & still nothing.

I was also waiting for our blood test results to come back for our doctor to sign the medical forms & the doctor said we would receive it by mail & when we do, to make an appoitment with her so she can sign the forms. Well, the blood test was done on December 30th & we were told 1 week & still nothing. I called the doctor's office & rescheduled the appointments 5 times & yesterday I called to cancel all together & I was going to just wait & see when it comes in to make an appointment & the receptionist looked in my chart & said that the results have been in since January 7. As the results were negative no one called us. I almost lost it on the phone & then I remembered that it is not her fault but her office policy. She then remembered that we were waiting for that for an adoption to proceed & she said our files shows we paid for the medical forms so they just assumed it was done. So needless to say that I did not cancel the appointment for tomorrow & we will be done with the medical portion. All we have left to wait for is the Interpol.

I started the process of Citizenship & before we can ask for her's I need to show that I am a Canadian Citizen & apply for myself as a sponsor. I sent that on Thursday (registered mail of course)& once I receive the okay to proceed then I have to start her Citizenship. We don't need to do Immigration 1st anymore, we can just go straight to Citizenship. One less bureaucratic step to do.

Once we receive the Interpol I will walk over to our IP to give her the copies of it & walk the rest over to our Social Service Adoption worker & then it's out of our hands. We should know 1 - 1 1/2 months later at which point we are in the game.

For now I am getting us ready slowly. I say "I" because Josh has no idea about packing & make sure everything we need is there, all he cares about is his games & 2 of his favourite stuffed animals & Sean is a last minute packer & so he doesn't understand why I am making lists of things to bring & why I worry about it now instead of waiting that we get a call to travel & then run around like chickens with our heads cut off to make sure everything is done & ready in 2 weeks. Well if I would be doing what he is proposing, we either go there with half of our stuff missing or he has to deal with me being so stressed that it would be like what Sean is calling "PMSing". As he doesn't want that & neither do I, he leaves me alone with my slow packing & revising of my lists.

No, it's not OCD, it's planning, organizing & being a mother to ensure everyone has what they need. You think that he would thank me when he is looking or needing something & then he asks me " you wouldn't happend to have.....?" & my answer is " yes, do you need it." No, no thanks here...... Yeh! I love the guy.

Anyway, enough rambling on. I will do another update once everything is done & sent to Social Services.

Malory