On the Adoption Front

Good News First
Our adoption agency received three referrals this week. There have been some changes in the Bulgarian Government during the past few months, and with that and Christmas, things seemed to slow down a little bit. But now it looks like everything is picking up again, and we're very excited to see families bring home their sweet kids.

Stupid News Second
In other adoption news, I talked to one of the girls at our home study agency today, and she told me that we'll do most of our updates in April. But . . . there's always a stinkin' but . . . anyway . . . but I may want to start my FBI background checks and fingerprints in February. And I was like, "Say what?" I mean do y'all remember the whole finger printing fiasco of 2011? Quick run down, in case you haven't been dwelling on it for the past year or so. When adopting from Bulgaria, the parents must submit ink fingerprints to the FBI for a background check. Not electronic fingerprints. You know, seeing as how we live in the electronic age.  But ink fingerprints. The old fashioned kind. The kind the nobody knows how to do correctly. Anyway last year, when we sent off the first set, Patrick's got accepted. Mine got rejected. I was traumatized. It held up our home study for a while. I just recently got over the whole ordeal. I may or may not be slightly dramatic. Yada yada yada. I naively thought it was all behind me, but today my bubble was burst. So now I have to be careful with my fingers again. I can't burn them, cut them, scrape them, or destroy them in any way, form, or fashion. Which, if you know me, is much easier said than done.

But I'm not going to dwell on this. I'm not going to worry about it. I'm going to go eat a box of Girl Scout cookies instead. Good night everyone.