Oh, the ROLLERCOASTER that is adoption!

So as I wrote a few entries back we were submitted into family court on June 20, which is one of the first steps in this very long, complicated, painful process. Well, the update from this week states that because the social worker who was assigned in Guatemala was "difficult," our file has been pulled from family court. They were supposed to resubmit Thursday or Friday - - but of course that is an approximation and I won't know til next Friday's update whether it was actually done yet or not.

I know it should be quicker to submit because the first time around we had to wait for the dossier to be translated and that is already done. They are doing this in the hopes of getting a new social worker assigned to our case. Of course, with eveything that is going on all we needed was one more set back.

In the long run this could be the best thing because we have been waiting since the end of June for the social worker to set up the meeting with the birth mother and hopefully our new social worker will be able to accomplish this and the Guatemalan home study much quicker.

Keep your fingers crossed that our file was already resubmitted and our new social worker is QUICK!