In the Thick

We are smack dab in the middle of all the grunt work. Wow! I am amazed at all of the hoops we have to jump through to qualify for adoption. Just when I thought we might begin to share this with some of our closest friends, I began to fear we might not even get approval. I know that God is in control and if it is meant to be He will open doors but ooooh--this is tough stuff. All the stuff I hate. Make appointments, fill out forms, gather papers etc. Not to mention a home visit that is coming up soon, where our social worker will spend 3 hours with us (and our crazy dog): and our kids at the house. I'm thinking if they don't disqualify us after that-- we may be good to go. Least I get too excited I hear we have tons of reading to do, a physical we all have to pass (that includes getting the Dr to fill out the forms correctly....that in itself may take a miracle), and an interview with our kids. Maybe we should have done this before they could talk too much! Ha! I guess maybe we do all this stuff to keep our minds off of the thousands of dollars we are paying to have all this torture inflicted on us!!! I am keeping the faith that all this will someday be a distant memory and so worth it in the end. Just kind of ironic that we are having to jump through all these hoops to make sure we would be good parents, with our 3 biological children right along side us. I totally respect and understand the process and know why we have to do it, but I have to find some humor or I will never make it through. I think it's kind of funny that God would call us to do this when He knows how I stress about paperwork! Guess just one more thing to let me know He is in control. If I seem more forgetful than usual, please know that my brain is turning to mush doing all this Paperwork!!!!