One Step Forward And Two Steps Back
Yesterday I faxed the documents that I completed (or thought I did. Yup, you know whats coming next!) to the agency for review before I take them to the Secretary of State for authentication. Turns out that there are problems with two of them, and they have to be redone from scratch. I just couldnt believe it when I read the email. I was so sure everything was done right! Well, actually one thing isnt my fault for not catching it. The agency wants a different notary format on that one.
I tell you I wanted to cry. Still do. But Im sucking it up. Nothing I can do except call the offices where the new documents need to come from and just grovel a little more for their prompt help. Generally people are good about helping out. After all, its for an adoption. So we can bring our little one home!!! Anyone who has a heart is happy to help out. Still, its painful having to go back again after you already did something once, and hurts even more that I failed to get everything together right the first time.
But on the flip side, the shutdown in good ole New Jersey is over, so my certificates should be in someones hands this coming week being authenticated. I hope anyway. Who knows what my untouched envelope could be buried under by this point! How crazy this all is! I thought that my NC documents were all in order and that I would just be waiting on NJ to get their butts in gear. Now it looks like NJ may pull out ahead while Im still messing with the NC stuff fixing these blunders.
Im always complaining, huh? I hate for my blog to be all about me whining and crying. But sometimes this adoption process is really hard and frustrating! Im always happy and so very excited, but I just get really down too. I just want my baby home already. You just start to burn out after a while with all the paperwork, and right now I am tired. But I'll never give up. Cant until my babe is here sitting on my lap while Im typing. So if it seems like Im always unhappy, its not true. This is the happiest I have ever been, and I know that when its all over and were all settled in here, I'll start to look back on the experience fondly. But for now, not so much.
I tell you I wanted to cry. Still do. But Im sucking it up. Nothing I can do except call the offices where the new documents need to come from and just grovel a little more for their prompt help. Generally people are good about helping out. After all, its for an adoption. So we can bring our little one home!!! Anyone who has a heart is happy to help out. Still, its painful having to go back again after you already did something once, and hurts even more that I failed to get everything together right the first time.
But on the flip side, the shutdown in good ole New Jersey is over, so my certificates should be in someones hands this coming week being authenticated. I hope anyway. Who knows what my untouched envelope could be buried under by this point! How crazy this all is! I thought that my NC documents were all in order and that I would just be waiting on NJ to get their butts in gear. Now it looks like NJ may pull out ahead while Im still messing with the NC stuff fixing these blunders.
Im always complaining, huh? I hate for my blog to be all about me whining and crying. But sometimes this adoption process is really hard and frustrating! Im always happy and so very excited, but I just get really down too. I just want my baby home already. You just start to burn out after a while with all the paperwork, and right now I am tired. But I'll never give up. Cant until my babe is here sitting on my lap while Im typing. So if it seems like Im always unhappy, its not true. This is the happiest I have ever been, and I know that when its all over and were all settled in here, I'll start to look back on the experience fondly. But for now, not so much.
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