Expiration of adoption paperwork

We've been officially logged in for our next adoption for 10 months now. For me today, there really seems to be no end in sight. Most days I realize and understand it will happen when it's supposed to happen. No one really knows what the wait will be but currently people are waiting around 17 to 18 months but it looks to me like it's going to get longer than that.

All of that to say, our paperwork has started expiring. The first thing to expire is our homestudy. Kentucky law/regulations require us to update that at the 12 month mark so our social worker was out Saturday to do the update. The next thing to expire are our fingerprints, they expire on 7/11. You have to wonder, what exactly is it that makes your "fingerprints" expire? HMMM ... Maybe I'm a little touchy on that one since it takes forever to find a technician that can actually read mine. Then our immigration (visa) approval expires in November and you have to recopy a lot of paperwork and repay the USCIS fee. But I know that God's timing is perfect timing and after all we went through w/ lost paperwork and fingerprint snafu's when we were adopting Emma, I realize that all those things worked together for us to receive the perfect child for our family.

In regards to when we travel next time ... fellow flyer's beware as Emma says she is going to fly the plane to get her sister!

Back to this past Saturday, while we were meeting w/ our social worker - Emma and Ryan were "busy" playing outside. Again, she thinks that whatever brother does she can do just as well. Not so sure I like her riding the little scooter but she thinks she can.