Patience?

It has been four months already since we decided to go ahead with our new adoption plan.  That sounds like not very long, but remember, we had already been waiting two and a half years for our Ethiopian adoption.  We haven't received our home study back yet, although it is done.  We are just waiting on it to be approved before all of the notarizing takes place.  All of this waiting on other people is really testing my patience.  So often I email my social worker or adoption agency just to see whats taking so long (I don't actually ask that but I more like pose a nice round-about question).  My social worker even responded with a "Patience my dear... ;) "  So I "jokingly" asked her, "What is this patience you speak of?"  (She's cool enough we can email random things to each other.  I suppose that's a blessing in itself).  Back to the point, my patience is very thin these days... and when things get super thin, they sometimes get holes.  So the more I think about it, I'm pretty sure my patience has holes in it. 

Home Visit

Our home study visit was a breeze.  Our social worker already knows everything about us since she has met with us four different times in the past.  I was worried about birth order being an issue- it wasn't. 

Info on our girl

This morning I awoke to a very detailed investigation report about our girl in my email inbox.  I can envision her life a lot more clearly now.  I also learned when her birthday actually is.  We were unsure on her exact age and now we know she will be turning six in three more months.  We knew she was anywhere from four-six years old.  Our youngest child is five soooo... can we adopt "slightly" out of birth order?  That's our newest concern.  We are okay with it, but will our social worker be okay with it?  We will know in a couple days.