Last meeting with our social worker

Well, so far....so good!  Our home study is very close to being complete.  It seems like this is taking FOREVER.  We're finished with our part and now just waiting on our agency to receive Ohio and Mississippi state child abuse registry clearances.  The Ohio ones are supposedly the ones that will take the longest (that's what we're being told) and it appears so!  Yesterday, I spoke to the lady who is over the ones in Mississippi and she informed me that they mailed them this past Monday (so our agency should have those soon).  Alabama faxed mine and it was received today.  Louisiana has already sent Aaron's and now we're just waiting on Ohio to send us ours so they can be forwarded to our agency.  Over the next few months, we also have to raise quite a bit of money so please be in prayers for us about this and on an unrelated (but somewhat related note), Aaron takes the GRE tomorrow and is applying to AFIT (Air Force Institute of Technology).  Let's pray he gets in so we don't have to move any time soon!!!  Our last meeting with our social worker was so painless, it was funny.  She is an awesome social worker and there are just a few things that have to be submitted (registry paperwork we're waiting on) and then our homestudy will be complete!  We also have to get fingerprinting appointments (which we expect any day from USCIS).  This Saturday we move the huge queen size bed from what will be our baby's room upstairs into the loft (which is now Aaron's office and will be an office/guest area/laundry room).  :LOL Multipurpose rooms!!!  If Aaron gets into AFIT, we might enter the housing market for the first time (but we have no idea because THAT is really scary since the Air Force dictates when we move).  For now (and this can change any time), Aaron is safe from a deployment (I'm almost scared to write that)... but for now, it seems things are going our way.  Please keep praying for us and this process.

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