Frustration.

First of all, sorry this is going to be long with no pictures. I will post a fun weekend post with pictures, but for now, this is what you get. I don't have a whole lot of time before I have to head to work. (Like 10 minutes) - I just wanted to ask my friends out here in blogland to pray for us. I especially am getting frustrated with our homestudy agency and don't want to make things worse, but am hastling them a lot. We were told at the orientation that it would take 4-6 weeks to get our homestudy completed - we are at 9 and it's still not done. It just is getting a bit frustrating. They 'didn't know' that we had to go all the way back to the age of 18 on our background checks (statewise), so way into the thing, I had to send two more request out. It actually all started back when we turned in our initial paperwork. We had worked our tails off and got it all done in 1 week. That's how motivated we are to get this done. Then, the social worker was supposed to call and set up our home visitwithin 2-3 days. A week later, no home visit scheduled. So, I start hounding them. Finally get it scheduled for another week and a half later. Frustrating to say the least. Then when she is here doing her thing (on a Saturday) sayus that we will have the rough draft by the end of the week, almost two weeks later we get a call from her ad she has some questions for us because she is 'finally' getting to work on our report. So, about a week laster or so we get the rough draft to make corrections to (and there were a number). It is abou tthis point when they realize that we are supposed to have the other background checks, so I do those that same day and get them out. (Still waiting onthe MD one). Then I start hounding them to send it to AGCI even without those dates to get it reviewed, but it isn't their policy to send it in to be checked until it is completed. So, with a bit of begging and pleading and a 'we wouldn't be waiting still if you had known what we were supposed to do by way of background checks', they ask the head lady and she approves sending it in 'just this once'. We get it back from AGCI, in almost record time I might add, with corrections that need made. No big deal. Those get made and I get another draft to review. Review it and make even more corrections. Now a week or more later, we are still waiting ont he MD background check (which I have called on twice), the homestudy still has to go back to AGCI for final approval (from what I understand) before we can get our hands on it. Let's just say that ALL of the other dossier paperwork has been done since April 2nd. I am getting a bit frustrated!!! Also, I get to see all these people who were right where we were about a month and a half ago, thinking that we would be put on the list right near each other. They are getting on the list and I am still waiting on a homestudy. Don't get me wrong, I am so excited for you all - just frustrated with our homestudy agency and the time it is all taking. So all this to say, please pray that we get my background check today, that I am able to calm down and not be so frustrated and that we can send our dossier in by the end of next week... hopefully. Please, just pray for us. T