Dossier Arrives and Dossier Needs to be Sent Back

Well today was just one of those days when I couldn't get ahead. I was supposed to receive our dossier information yesterday but our social worker didn't get to it, so she sent it to us today around noon. Well, it was not as bad as what I had expected, but it will still require a lot of paper chasing.

I thought I would start on a few of the easier items. The dossier required us to get a form from our doctors stating that we are physically and mentally capable of adopting children. Hee Hee - that's a mouth full. I successfully arrived at the clinic with B. in tow and turned in the forms.

Next I went to Walgreens to get two more passport pictures that are required (even though we already have our passports and we need to send a copy of them too). Well the screen that you stand in front of for the picture at Walgreens pulls down right in front of the pop/milk refrigerator section. It was awkard. The picture dude took the picture and developed it in about 5 minutes and B. is still in tow. I got out to the car and look at the pictures and was horrified. The person in the picture looks like she was homeless and on drugs. The lighting was really bad and the white background doesn't help, but this was not good. There is no way I can send that picture to the Ethiopian government. They would never allow that person to take any of their children, honestly. So feeling a little defeated, I just went home.

While B. was watching a movie I decided to start working on more paperwork. I looked at the first page I needed to fill out and noticed that Scott's last name was spelled wrong as in "Revees." I started looking at all the 32 other forms and yes each and every one had Scott's name spell wrong - so I quickly looked at the original of the form I had dropped off at the clinic and yep spelled wrong on that one too. So I will need to get all new forms from the adoption agency and I will have to return to the clinic and give them the corrected form once I receive it.

I emailed the adoption agency at 5:30pm but I think everyone had probably left by then. They are really good at getting back to me quickly so I should be able to get the new forms earlier tomorrow -hopefully.

The morale of the story is that I just should have stayed home today. I will start again tomorrow.