Kick out!!!!!!

February 06
Kick out!!!!
My head was spinning today at around 11:55am when I got the call from our agency saying that we have a "previo"...or more blatently..a kick out of PGN. This really stinks to be politically "nice". The worst of it is that it is for something so ridiculous. Our dossier guidelines from more than one agency were that we have one medical form from our family physician saying that she has examined us all and we are healthy and able to adopt a child. PGN says they want three separate pieces of paper saying the SAME THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So what this means is that I had to re-do the forms take them to my incredibly helpful and wonderful family practice doctor and her staff who dropped what they were doing to retype the forms on her letterhead, then she had to personally take them to a notarary have them notarize her signature and then leave them for me. I will have to cancel my patient's tomorrow, reschedule them to Friday, arrange for child care Friday, arrange for child care tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening while I drive 120 some miles to Bakerfield have the county clerk put a commission slip on the documents from our local notarary then I will drive 112 more miles (different direction) to Los Angeles to the Secretary of States office have a state seal put on the documents then drive 3 miles to the Guatemalan Consulate office for an authentification seal THEN find a Fed Ex building to get the docs overnighted to Minnesota then they are sent to Guatemala and once they arrive there they have to be transulated and authenticated there and THEN HOPEFULLY we will be back in PGN. Oh, then I drive back home another 150 miles! Hopefully the traffic gods will be good to me! Then this could all happen again depending on who is reviewing our case if they don't like something else they see. OK, in the big scheme of things, I would do it tens times over for Maria, it is just frustrating. However, atleast we certainly know we are in PGN and just mabe this will be the only kickout and we will still be out by the end of February. Who knows. We just miss her and want her home. Every minute that goes by is heart breaking at this point. However, I have read many other stories which have waited YEARS if you can believe it.. So at this point, after venting....yes, I feel better.....we are still lucky and feel that things will continue to move forward!!! One other good note..I have been seeing quite a few post that PGN is definately moving and I am seeing cases with KO's go back in and only be delayed one or two weeks. Keep you fingers crossed!!