My husband and I traveled to Anchorage a couple of weeks ago to get our fingerprints taken digitally. We had to fly. I did not want to drive 7 hours to get there on questionable roads. So, that's another $350 to add to our growing total of our adoption cost. Plus we rented a vehicle, and stayed an extra night so that we could reconnect. We had a nice time. The frustrating thing? I thought that we would get the document that we needed right then so that we could get all of our other documents sent off to be apostilled. No such luck. We will have to wait about 2 months from the research that I have done. I'm following another couple through their adoption blog and they waited for nearly 8 weeks. What I don't understand is since we had fingerprints taken already when we did our homestudy, why we had to have a separate set done. The only difference between them were the ones for our homestudy were rolled. You know... the ink.... the mess.... the feeling like your a criminal even though you aren't.
I wouldn't have minded so much if we didn't have to go all the way to Anchorage. People just don't understand how difficult it is living up here in the middle of nowhere. Oh well, one more year to go.
Everyone keeps asking me if we have a picture yet of our daughter, or if we know where we are going.... NO.... you see, adopting internationally is not like going shopping. You have to get all of your documents in order, then apply to the country, then they choose a child for you. I'm tired of explaining it. A couple of months ago, someone asked me why we chose to go international when there are so many children in our own country who needs families... uhh... because I don't want my child taken away from me after the birth parent changes their mind, that why. When we bring home our child, I want it to be for good.
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