We’ve been waiting for a state-contracted agency to complete a short document that says we are ready to adopt to the boys, and then the finalization will take place, but though the document was requested to be done in April, and they were supposed to complete it within 2 months, it has now been over 3 months, and it hasn’t been done yet.

We were basically powerless to do anything about it as we have no direct contact with the agency and the state (CPS) had been contacting this agency about us and gotten no responses, so we’ve begun to get quite frustrated.

Well, Katie managed to find an email to someone who might know something about it, and she emailed her and today got a response saying that the document was completed in May and supposedly sent to CPS!  We don’t know if that is true and if so, where the document is, but the good news is that the ball is rolling again–who knows how long everything would have just stayed at a standstill if Katie hadn’t found that one person to contact and emailed her.

So we are hopeful that the people involved will now be scrambling to try to find that document or get it re-sent if they can’t find it.

As a concluding note, we have had a great experience with all our state (CPS) caseworkers, but it is still obviously very possible for important documents to get lost in the complex bureaucracy that is the state adoption system.