Update, update, update

Update, update, update...

Nothing too exciting.  It's been a while since my last post.  What has happened since??? 

We had to do our yearly homestudy update yesterday.  For so many reasons this makes me want to cry.  For one, it is an additional cost and not a cheap bill either.  $500 to update our Homestudy and $1200 for an annual File Maintenance (we won't even go there with how I feel about this fee...I'm SURE one can imagine!!!!).  Secondly, it is a nagging reminder that we are STILL WAITING for things to progress (for us to get matched)...tick tock, tick tock....$$$$....$$$$$....

We have been asked by a few people about our Homestudy Update.  Let me start by saying what it is not.  It is NOT going to speed up the process!  So many people have asked us this.  What the update is for, is to change anything in the previous homestudy. 

So for us, the kids got older, joined new activities, ended other activities (like kickboxing because the whole school was shut down whaaaaa), we had a cat before (now we don't), our back yard got an awesome play set and we LOWERED our age parameters (still a girl though).

Why did we lower our age limit?  We discussed it quite a bit and realized that if there was a girl who was younger but wasn't being matched with us because she was months shy of what we requested, we would hate to miss out or have her orphaned longer than she needs to be.  So, if we end up with a baby (which I really doubt would happen) then so be it.  We've done babies five times already ha ha!

Thanks for praying for us!