The reason we haven't updated this blog in many moons is because there has been no change. Back in late March/early April we found out that we needed far more paperwork than we expected for our home study. We're talkin' background checks from each state we've lived in for something like the last 10 years. Kansas had been completed but nothing else. So we begrudgingly got together more paperwork and sent off our requests. Though it seemed like an eternity, two weeks later we had all our background checks. In fact, they all came in within two days of each other. Fantastic! Or so we thought. As it turned out, a child abuse screening from Kansas was never received by our agency. To put it in perspective, the check for the screening cleared on March 27th; but by mid-April we were still waiting. After a couple days of phone calls we learned that Kansas had supposedly sent the report and that they do not keep copies. I ask you, dear reader, in this day and age who doesn't backup their work? So we sent off for a new screening.
Fast forward two more weeks to last Friday. We received an email out of the blue from our social worker saying that she received our screening. Hooray! I'm going to say it once more, this time with feeling. HOORAY! I apologize for the caps lock, dear reader: I wasn't yelling at you.
All that needs to be done now is our home study will need whatever random placeholder date was used replaced with "05/12/2012". Sounds good to me. We'll be able to be shown to birth moms pretty much immediately.
So that's why I say that I'm back on speaking terms with Kansas.
