Each Tuesday we receive the local small town newspaper in our post office box. 6 pages, lots of short notices, and often the same notices are sprinkled liberally throughout the paper. In other words, you have to sift for news. Typically the article that most resembles "real" news is the monthly school board minutes!
I always scan the monthly police report. Last month our two police officers (in a village of 1300) dealt with 232 issues, e.g., "8 vacation watch requests, 3 domestic disputes," etc. I think we were included in 2 or 3 of the "205 assorted services performed."
Over the past four years we have been fingerprinted ... and fingerprinted ... and fingerprinted again. And we have been paper-ready to adopt for what seems like a long time.
But then a new law came into being in one state. And if we didn't jump through a bunch of hoops, then we would not be eligible to adopt in certain types of situations from that state. So we jumped ... and jumped ... and jumped some more.
February 11th we learned about the hoops.
February 12th I mailed round one of the completed paperwork and money.
February 17th we learned that we were approved to do round two.
February 19th we had a date night at the police station in our village getting fingerprinted.
February 20th I mailed round two (fingerprint cards and money).
March 2nd we learned my fingerprints were rejected (!).
March 3rd I was fingerprinted again at the police station in our village and mailed new fingerprints.
March 22nd we learned that we had successfully jumped through the hoops!
Except for the fact that nothing is wasted in God's economy, it might have been for nothing, if we never adopt from that state. :) But, we're glad our agency is tracking trends (and laws) and walked us through the hoops. And we're glad our local police station could do the fingerprints this time (this time the prints could NOT be electronic; all previous times, they HAD to be electronic).
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