Lots of paper work.

Wow.

We received all of our paperwork October 8. I remember when Christine handed us the overflowing folder, I thought, "You have got to be kidding me; we will never complete this!" She said it usually takes a few months to gather everything we would need, so not to worry. With a heavy sigh, we started flipping through the paperwork to figure out where to even start. Immediately, the overwhelming feelings started to fade, and we were feeling more optimistic. I even started filling out information on the drive home. Chris laughed, and said, "If we take it all back today, she is going to think we are crazy!"

Strangely enough, we finished most the physical paperwork over the weekend. We also completed the first phase of information online. We scheduled our fingerprinting appointments, doctor visits, and registered for CPR/First Aid. We shopped for all the stuff we need for our home visit checklist, installed this and that, and printed off everything that would prove we were living humans, married, sealed, legal, working, insured, etc. etc. etc.

Phase two was completed October 15th. Phase three was very intimidating. It was some how finished later that week, as well. We officially turned in all our paper work, and submitted our online information October 20.

Christine is out of town for a conference. She scheduled our personal interviews for October 29th.

And here we are. After answering hundreds of questions, printing, scanning, downloading, uploading, researching, writing, typing, e-mailing, scheduling, calling, driving, and even some white out, we are relieved to be done with this first part of the process. It feels good. Real good, even!

Oh. And we are moving today.

.we love chaos.