Green Light....Red Light

Did you ever play that game "Green, Yellow, Red Light"? I remember clearly, playing it as a little girl with my school classmates. The person that's "IT" Says "Green light" and you quickly move forward....
"Yellow Light".....cautiously moving

"RED Light!" ....and you come to a screeching halt!

 I've been thinking how many times life is like that. At least in the adoption process how many times have we felt like we got a GREEN light and have quickly sped forward. Only to sometimes come to a screeching halt shortly after.

GREEN LIGHT!! Last week we were so excited to send our FINAL documents to the NYC consulate. It felt like such an accomplishment. We did some quick estimations in our head. Approx. one week till we send these documents off and have them back again. Make photo copies and by all means get our entire dossier in the mail to our agency the very next day. Figure 3 days till they arrive at the agency.... and one week for our agency to process the documents and then...finally, mailed on to China. So close to getting our dossier to China.

RED LIGHT: The NYC Chinese consulate denied stamping our home study and are sending it back to us all because of a staple! Yes, you read that correctly. An. offensive. staple punch!
See, when we sent it to Albany to be state certified they attach their certificate with a grommet punch, which is how it is required. However, our home study is fat, 24 pages, and the one grommet didnt hold so they stapled it instead. Big no no! Any stapled on papers are strictly prohibited because any Tom Dick or Joe could have put it on. So now we need to resend it back to Albany. This will add on another two weeks at least.

Disappointing!

On the home front here... we are back in swing with school, I'm hoping to post pictures soon of my sweet scholars and their school room.

End of season canning is wrapping up (Yay!) and we got to celebrate the end of summer with a final trip to the beach.

Next wk.end we are planning a little family trip to PA. Cabella's and Sight & Sound are two exciting places we can't wait to take the children too. Also catching up with dear friends, and a buisness meeting for Steve.

~~Live expectantly of the MORE God desires for you!"