Jacob has been home for a few days now, has improved greatly in his complaints of stomach pain, and has picked up a cold/cough. Today he felt puny from that, but overall, the change in him is nothing short of miraculous. I hope it holds.
On to the adoption news: We are still in the homestudy update phase. We have had our update interview, have sent off for all of the various clearances necessary and are waiting for those to come back. They are taking a while. We know the state of Ohio takes MONTHS to return the child abuse clearances. I have called and emailed, and I did receive a nice email back from the person who runs the checks, that she will do them this week, and mail them out on Monday. Then the disclaimer...she will let me know if these plans change. So, hopefully, next week, we will have the Ohio clearances.
Nevada and Idaho turn theirs around in 24 hours or less. I wonder why it takes Ohio 2-4 MONTHS to do the same thing??? I know there are more people in Ohio than in Nevada and in Idaho, but come on! The agency has confirmed that they have Nevada's, and a glitch in communication was solved, I faxed our signed and notarized consent for Idaho to run and release these to our agency. So they should be in by sometime next week as well.
Dare I hope that by the end of next week we could have the homestudy in hand and be ready to submit to USCIS by the first week in Jan?
From our home to yours, we wish everyone following along a truly blessed, peaceful, and holy Christmas, celebrating the birth of Our Savior. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
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