America's Most Wanted and other news...

Hello all!

August huh?

Time sure does fly! I haven't been real up on updating anything because there hasn't been much to update. On the adoption front, things have been going slower than the slowest it can go. After 7 weeks of waiting for a finger print appointment - or biometrics screening - I am pleased to say that I am in Anchorage AK and I have officially been electronically fingerprinted!

After many weeks of waiting and calling to see where my file was in process, I finally talked with a guy who said that my file had been processed several weeks ago, but my name was suspended.

Well, what does that mean? He didn't know. I was discouraged that this hadn't been realized in the previous weeks when I persistently called. He put me on hold to talk to his supervisor and came back well over 10 minutes later to say that it is because of where I live, there is no place close by to get the screening done, so I had to wait for more families that needed the scan so they would send a team to Juneau.

Well, call me impatient, but I don't want to wait. I have to fly to the appointment either way, so i asked if they could get me in earlier in Anchorage.

He had to talk with his supervisor again.

Another 10 minutes and he informed me that I had an appointment for the next week, Aug. 4 at 2pm.

Wahoo!

So I called my cousin who lives in Anchorage to secure a place to stay and booked my ticket.

My screen is done and I can officially say I have been to mainland Alaska now!

Thanks for your prayers. More updates to come! It is likely going to get exciting :)

In other news, I have had friends come to visit in July, Jenn and Melissa and had a rainy week at kids camp.

Thankfully I have had quite a bit to keep my busy to keep my mind off the really slow adoption process.