Home Study is Complete ;0

We just received an e-mail from our social worker stating that Terra has signed-off on our home study and it is now complete! This is absolutely awesome news because now we can request our change of country from USCIS. We're almost ready to send our dossier to Ethiopia!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday, we tackled our life insurance verification with State Farm. The rather confused/inept notary/secretary couldn't believe that we actually requested she use State Farm letterhead to print-off the computer screen with all the pertinent info. She said that she hasn't used letterhead in years because they don't do work in the office because the important work is done at home office - her notary skills certainly back-up that statement! The good news is that we've got what we need and shouldn't have to deal with her again.

We also were fingerprinted again yesterday. The Nashville USCIS office has moved to a much easier to locate facility. We were in and out in under 10 minutes. The same people who worked with us previously were the ones to work with us this time and remembered about our adoption. Sadly though, they told us of another local family who just returned after 4 weeks in-country and $50,000.00 later only to leave Ukraine without a child. Their story very much resembled ours - I made sure to say a special prayer for that family and for their new adoption venture with another country.

By the way, the timing was great yesterday with my sister's swearing-in ceremony and the fingerprinting appointment. By 10:30 a.m., I had presented my sister and was seated back with my family. We were actually able to watch most of the ceremony before leaving for our USCIS appointment. We arrived very early because the locations were so close together and were out of USCIS before 11:30 a.m.! We were able to go to State Farm and then meet-up with our family at Mimi's Cafe for an awesome lunch!

Once again, God's timing is always perfect!