Day one of a new wait

71 days it took for our social worker to complete the homestudy. Thursday afternoon our homestudy and paperwork for immigrations was sent thru the mail. We are hoping next week, we will receive word that they received it and within a month have our fingerprints. I talk to one of the other social workers ( she was our social worker for Katie and Jenny), at Crossroads and she gave me some ideas and thought we could try to do to speed up the waiting a little bit and possibility expedite our stuff in China. It may or may not happen to move it along faster, but knowing their is a possibility of it helps. As I was frustrated with how long the homestudy took, I am relieve knowing the we are onto the next step. I am thankful that a another door possibility open, that we can still get Erin home this summer which was our original goal. Thank you Jesus for showing us another option.
Monika, Katie and Jenny showing off their "fingerprints" "See mom, that was easy, what is the next step". If it only was that simple, we we would be in China now meeting Erin.
My parents came into town to see Jade's concert. She had a small solo part at the beginning of one of the songs. She has such a beautiful voice. The whole concert was very well done. A lot of talented kids and they even had some "fun" songs in there that the kids enjoy. From the time my dad sat down this morning on the couch, the kids were on him and had to all read to him. I think they ended up reading so much to him, it put him to sleep. We unfortunately don't get to see him that often, so it was nice to see him.

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