We started out at the Floyd County Sheriff's office to do some ink-less fingerprinting. Derek and I both giggled when the officer told us to make "Spok fingers" to place on the machine. Although it took about an hour, we got to meet some neat people (like the guy who handed me a wet dollar in exchange for 4 quarters or the lady that yelled because we were fingerprinted before her). We got our paperwork and headed to the next place.
Lunch at Chick-Fil-A, a trip to Staples for announcement letter supplies, and then to the Clark County Sheriff's office. Background checks for both of us (clean checks if you had your doubts) and then to the Charlestown Police dept. where I got to talk into a speaker and camera. It was sort of like talking to God, but I'm pretty sure He doesn't have a Charlestown accent. We headed home after getting our local police background checks and started working on our big announcement letters.
Our first "wave" of letters is going out today and although we're super excited to tell our family and close friends, we're nervous at the same time. This is our personal story that comes with a daily (sometimes too honest) blog, so if you received a letter please keep this confidential until our home study is approved. Then we'll announce it to the world and scream it from the roof tops!
Speaking of home studies, we're waiting to hear from our Adoption Specialist (social worker) and complete a few more pieces of paperwork until I can send this last batch in. After that it's on to the hard part....our family profile. DUH DUH DUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH!!!
*Okay, I apologize in advance. All day yesterday Derek and I were talking about my dad who is a Sheriff and how nice it would have been just to have him there. So, while looking on the internet for a picture of a sheriff's logo, I found this.... which just happens to be him wearing a kilt and repelling off the tallest building in our area for the Special Olympics this year. This is so much better than a sheriff's logo.
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