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We are Elizabeth and Allan Pack and have been married 8 years. In November 2011 we took that leap of faith and applied to adopt a child from Ethiopia. This blog is all about our journey from start to finish. We patiently waited for 5 years to bring our child home and as of April 2016 we felt God was leading us to withdraw from the program and help another family bring home their child.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Updating documents

We are happy to say we FINALLY got another appointment to get our fingerprints done at Homeland Security. Woo hoo! It took almost 2 months for them to reschedule and our other fingerprints expired on February 28th. We are still hopeful that them expiring has not affected anything. I guess only time will tell!

Allan had his physical completed for the home study but not without complications. We have to laugh because it just seems like it can never go easy for him. His physical is what held us up so long at the beginning of the paperwork process! This time it was his TB test that caused problems. The nurse was unable to tell if he had TB or if it was an allergic reaction so she sent him to the health department for them to check it out. Well, the health department wouldn't check it because he didn't have a doctors note and our doctor had already closed. So, we had to wait all weekend, wondering if he had TB. On Monday, he had to call and they set up an appointment for him to have a chest x-ray to determine if he had TB or not. Thankfully, the x-ray came back clear and he is okay!! :)

Dealing with the doctors offices for physicals and notaries can be nerve racking! I had two sets of paperwork ready for the doctors, one for Allan and one for me. They both had the exact same guidelines and requirements. I went to the doctor to pick up Allan's form and drop off mine and the nurse looks at mine and says Oh I didn't know the notary has to be good for 2 years! It took all I had to not get smart with her. Allan and I have the same paperwork! How could she not know?!? It's those little things that can put a BIG bump in the road. Thankfully, when I e-mailed our social worker to ask, she said the notary didn't have to be 2 years. That was a huge relief! Otherwise we would've had to have hired a mobile notary to go to the doctors office.

We are hopeful that we can get my physical paperwork done in a timely manner and get all our home study paperwork sent in before April 1st. We are on a deadline to get the home study done before our I 171-H expires. We just continue to trust in God and his timing!

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With the upcoming home study, we are trying to clean up some of the items we have collected. We are having an Online Auction to help bring home Baby Pack on Facebook. It will last until March 26th at 1pm. Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/events/1495376874023106/