ugh..

Boy is this taking longer than it should be. Friday we went to the NH USCIS office to be fingerprinted and were told we were not in their computer system yet....I just got a call from our social worker today, saying she had just gotten off the phone with the INS office asking why we hadn't been fingerprinted yet....sigh. But, the good news is that that mess is all straightened out and we should be getting a letter giving us permission to be fingerprinted (hopefully) by the end of the week.
I also called the MA State police office to find out why our criminal background checks were taking so long....finally got a nice woman on the phone that explained that their computer systems had been down for a week and that she would look for ours this week and process it ASAP :)
so maybe we'll get to submit our paperwork to the MA Secretary of State to be apostiled in the next 2 weeks....
then it's off to the NY Consular office and and all of it goes to our adoption agency to be reviewed and translated.
if we are lucky, it will be submitted by the end of march....
our hopes for having her home by the end of the year are fading unless referral times pick back up again, but it will feel good to at least have it in the hands of the Chinese government and completely out of our control....(i think...)
:)