Thanks for everyone's advice to my last post.

There were a couple of other things going on last week which led to the abrupt post. Long story short, work has been crazy for both of us and M was taking his real estate licensing exam on Thursday, so he was studying Wednesday night. This is very important for us for all of the obvious reasons. But also why I asked him weeks ago to get the adoption stuff taken care of before he had to study. (Remember we've lived here for two years now and he's finally taking the exam. The adoption is the motivator to complete the exam because technically he can't do his job in CA before he gets his license. And how would that look for the homestudy?) My sister is also in the process of buying a condo so we've been driving back and forth to La Jolla after work and on weekends. Looks like she is pretty close to getting her offer accepted (after lots of negotiation, another long story).

Later on Thursday and Friday he finished the paperwork (which I had left untouched & unmentioned on the kitchen table) and he also proactively called our agency to ask about some questions we didn't know how to answer. He apologized for not having completed it in time. I told him that I was frustrated because (1) he said he would do it by Tues and (2) I knew it would be another week before I had 2-3 hours to sit down and put everything together. So the ball is back in my court to get things done. Honestly, since this incident I haven't been particularly motivated to complete the forms.

I'm worried about how we will handle the real paperwork, the wait, the stress, ... if I couldn't count on him for the very first step. Or myself for that matter. Granted he was two days late with his info - no big deal, right? But this minor event has been emotionally draining. Everyone at work & family knows we are starting now and that we've been waiting over a year to get this going. I get the questions daily from everyone about our progress. You all know how tiring that is.

I sure hope we'll be back on track shortly. I need to get my mojo together first. Meanwhile, can you guys (Suzanne and Elle) go on ova to Russia and bring home your babies!!! I've been waitin' for ya too long! :)