More Paperwork and a Child's Prayer

I feel at times like I am chasing an endless paper trail.....

The good news is that our homestudy is almost complete and the written words completely reflect who Isaac and I are and our life together almost as if I had written it myself. The not so great news is that we found out that we have to get a KY child abuse clearance in addition to our FL child abuse clearance because we have not lived in sunny FL for over 5 years. The wonderful KY people are going to expedite this for us...no wonder Gov. Fletcher called KY the "Friendliest State." This process has made me really appreciate people who are just kind because they care.

And, thank goodness for our dossier assistant because she caught some mistakes that we obviously didn't know were mistakes in our stack of papers (pictured below) and now we have to correct those and start having everything notarized again by us as the custodians of the paperwork. I think this is just the beginning of the last paper chase and I plan to chase that paperwork all the way to Ethiopia as fast as I can!!!

As I've been losing my mind over all these little details, I've been reading a book by Melissa Fay Greene called There is No Me Without You. This book is a must-read, in my opinion, for Ethiopia adoptive parents and their families. This prayer from the lips of an adopted Ethiopian little girl puts it all in perspective:

"Thank you, God, for my mom. She's a good, good mom. She knows how to be a good mom. Even when I mad, she love me. Even when I sad, she love me. Even when I do bad thing, she love me. My mom, she so cute. My mom, she not ugly. But she ugly, I still love her. Even if she ugly, I still love her. Even if she really, really ugly, I love her. And she love me, if I ugly. But she not, she cute. Thank you, thank you, God, for good and cute mom."