And It Begins in Earnest

It's extremely hot and muggy today. Thank God for the air conditioning in the living room and bedroom or I'd be even more frustrated than I am. We finally got the paperwork and application to begin our home study only to find out that the agency fee went up $100. Our social worker is asking about a one time exception so that we can get the original fee of $300 that we were quoted. Once that application is filed with the appropriate fees, we can finally begin the home study. I thought that we'd never get here.

It's amazing the information that is required for this step -- addresses for both of us since we turned 18, fingerprints for us and Edward (who turned 18 on Sunday), reference letters and the list goes on.

Our biggest struggle right now is the financing of the home study and INS fees. The $$ just aren't there to proceed with any speed. If we don't get this accomplished in a relatively decent amount of time, all of our other paperwork for our Ethiopan dossier will be out of date. I seriously want to change our country to Zambia, but Ralph just isn't as certain since we already sent the initial fee to CWA and it isn't refundable, although Ralph wants me to ask. I don't feel comfortable with that however, so he'll have to do that.

The heat is really getting to me and the computer, so I best be going. Hopefully tomorrow will be cooler and I can post again.