Don't trust the post office

Well I'm sorry to say there has been another setback.  A few weeks ago we sent our final paperwork into the agency.  This was to be the last of our preliminary paperwork including those medical forms we did and re-did quite a few times as well as a LARGE personal check to the agency and who knows what all.  The next step after these papers was up to the agency and we had a hard time adjusting to this process finally being out of our hands and up to someone else to take it and run with it.  But oh what a RELIEF  to be just waiting and excitedly imagining how things are going!  Reuben mentioned a few times that the check he wrote still hadn't cleared and he wondered why.  We let it go for a while thinking that they must be sooo busy working on our stuff the just hadn't thought to cash it yet.  Last week Reuben finally got suspicious and e-mailed the agency.   To our horror they said the never received a thing!  Our precious packet of final paperwork is officially lost in the mail!  We are crushed to say the least.  It took me a while to even be able to write this blog post.  We have lost at least 4-5 weeks in our adoption process not to mention having to re-do some papers including the infamous medical forms!ahhhhh  Can this really be happening??  Don't worry we canceled that check.  So you may be asking yourself why we aren't trying to track that package.  Well unfortunately in his hurry to get that mailed Reuben said "priority"  instead of "certified" when he mailed it and the promptly lost the receipt he got.  Oh well we all make mistakes.  So back to the paperwork.  We just decided we need to just get over the shock and get back to it.  I really don't like seeming like a negative Nellie on this blog and it was never meant to be a place to vent or complain but at the same time I want it to be"real" and this process is not always happy happy happy so I hope you all will bear with me as I hope to have positive things to say soon!  Thank you all for your prayers for us through this crazy but worth it ride!