One Step Forward....Two Steps Back

This whole process is enough to make a mamma crazy!  We got our dossier back from the Secretary of State this morning.  One of the documents was not notarized correctly.  It was a simple mistake and easy to fix but it means that we have to send it back to the Secretary again to get authenticated.  This means we have another week before we can send the completed dossier over to our adoption agency.

This may not seem like much time in the normal world but in the adoption world it is a bit heart breaking.  Think about how slowly the last week of pregnancy goes by and you will have an idea of how it feels to wait for a referral.  The difference is we don't have a due date. There is no gaurentee that our kids will get here in a certain time frame.  We have about another week waiting for the dossier, then a five day wait for it to get to our adoption agency, then a week wait to get it sent over to adoption avenues(the people who find us a referral.)  Then we really don't know how long it will take to get the referral.

It still seems like a long way to go.  We still have a huge amount of faith that this is all in God's perfect timing.  Knowing that truth....and living out that we know that truth are two very different things.  We want to praise God in this storm and find joy and these little hiccups.  Anyways....pray a quick return of that one document and for my attitude over the next few weeks.  I am.....frustrated.