The Pile!

What an incredible day!

Our final piece of paperwork arrived for our homestudy, we have confirmation that our fingerprints were “passed” by Minnesota’s background check system, and our last homestudy visit is scheduled for next Friday.

Next week I will lug mountains of paperwork over to the notary. EVERYTHING requires a notary seal.

After that it is on to St. Paul where the Secretary of State affixes a special seal to each piece of paper. I think this is to guarantee that everything they already stamped and signed is true. Another way to say it is that our government gets to receive a large sum payment to stamp stacks of documents we already paid them to send, file, certify and stamp.

We are calling this Operation Ruth, and I keep thinking of this as ransom money. So whatever it takes. We all need our kinsman-redeemer to show up and pay. Thankfully, Jesus has done that. For each of us. We gladly do it thinking of that picture in our minds.

With joy in my heart I will rejoice over those Secretary of State stamps! They represent our final paperwork preparation.

ALL those papers eventually join up with another set of forms and stamps and seals once our government grants us ANOTHER clearance, and they all get translated and sent to China…

Are you tired yet?

Gathering all this, however, has been an act of love! Although I sound, I think, that I am complaining, it has come together so fast, and it has really been blessedly simple thus far.

Really, I offer up my services if the paperwork is what is holding you back from adoption! I have become adept at forms and certificates!

You may smile, but I am serious (and some of you know who you are so don’t pretend you don’t know I’m a-talking to you!). ☺


Emma Kate- we’re coming to get you!

Emma Kate- we’re bringing you home!

Love,
Your administratively gifted for adoption only Momma