Bumps, bruises, rocks and the weather

I haven't been updating much because life has been busy. We have been trying to finish up our school year and have done several field trips to help with that.  Then the weather here where we are has been a bit crazy and devastating at times.  Though we haven't been directly affected by it, it's still been in our neck of the woods and we have tried to do our best to support those who have been affected in major ways. 

I had made a comment to a friend recently that we had had some pretty smooth sailing when it came to our adoption process.  Don't get me wrong, we had some bumps and rabbit trails in our process but nothing like we have currently.  We had our USCIS appointments at the beginning of May.  We were excited.  They were done and things were moving along. THEN it happened.  Our first rock in the road.  We got pink slipped for several things. One was they were looking for a background check on the hubs in a state he had never lived in. We got that one fixed with a little bit of wrangling but it got fixed nonetheless.  The next issue was our oldest child.  Not as easy a fix as we originally thought.  We have had everything put on hold because we have a child turning 18 in about 5ish weeks and USCIS is wanting us to get her fingerprinted and background checks done locally as well as federally.  Well, that's all fine and dandy except our current state will NOT release juvenile records.  Not even with our child's consent and mine.  Never mind that there are NO RECORDS to release.  That was  a bit of an ordeal that afternoon but we gave up and called our case worker to inform her of the issues we were having.  All she could say to us at the time was, "Satan sure is working against you guys all of a sudden."  I had to agree.  So, with her help,  we were granted an extension and now are praying that all the updates for the homestudy will be completed and fingerprinting (local and federal) will be completed and turned in before August 12th.  There are a few other things that are standing in the way as well that I can't go into here.  At least, not for now.   We could use some prayers.  God's will be done.  I'll be happy if we can have our guy home before the end of the year at this point!!!  But praying that he will be home much sooner than that.

We've got some bad weather again tonight.  Tornado watches are in effect until midnight.  Love tornado alley.  Thank you all for the prayers.

STWTHE,
Laurie