Sunday, November 16, 2008

Why so nervous???

I am normally a girl with a lot of moxie. My mom would call me fearless.
I just go and do things and don't really worry about messing it up (from my end.) However, I am really nervous about taking the homestudy to USCIS tomorrow. Why? I don't know. I guess I'm afraid of messing it up. How could I mess up delivering a shaff of papers to a government agency? I don't know. But I'm nervous.

Maybe I'm not nervous about us tomorrow but our friends the Browns. they have court and I know Sandi is almost numb at this point. The Hoskens have court the next day. Same thing with Amanda. I have been telling each of them every day for the past month that everything will go through smoothly and they'll be in ETH in December and home well before the holidays with their families finally complete. What if I'm wrong? What if there is no electricity in the courthouse that day? What if a child's name is misspelled? What if the parent's name is misspelled. What if only 1 birthparent signed a form that 2 should have?

Or could it be that I'm afraid that we'll be caught in the rainy season next year. That our DTE date will be in January and we'll get a referral in August and then have to sit and wait, looking at our child's picture 100 times a day, for court in October. Could I handle that? Why am I worrying about that at this point?

Maybe I didn't get enough sleep last night. Maybe a nap right now would do me good. I think I'll take one and see if I feel more "fearless" in about 1 hour.

2 comments:

Kenny said...

It is a big step! From the moment we started our homestudy to the moment I held Meron for the first time I was on and off terrified and convinced that there was no way that things would work out... Don't worry about being fearless, just worry about getting stuff done in spite of how scared you are! We'll be thinking of you turning in your homestudy tomorrow!

Sandi said...

Fear is very natural in this process. There are so many hurdles to pass and this is a big one. Praying that all goes well today. :)