Waiting Again

We are still waiting for our notarized home study and we haven't heard from our social worker regarding the completion date. It shouldn't take very long since it is basically an update. I'm going to have to e-mail her because we have to have everything mailed into Atlanta BEFORE April 10, 2009. That is now about 12 days away.

We are heading to our house to sweep up more sheet rock dust, saw dust, and water. We had a major heavy rain late Wednesday night and into Thursday morning. Water is all in the basement. I think it covered the whole floor at one point. Today we have to sweep it out. Our vinyl guy is supposed to work next week to get the gutters up. According to Tide Guy, that should help with drainage and keep our basement more dry. When we get our deck in the back that should help. Leveling out the front yard and adding grass will help more with the front yard.

In national news, gas prices are on the rise again. The price per gallon has gone up about 20 cents in a week. It is now about $1.99. Just in time for summer. Unemployment is still a staggering high, but the stock market seems to be gaining it's footing a little bit.

We are very ready for spring and warm weather!

Tide Gal and Tide Guy

Home Study is Complete

Our 2nd home study is complete. Our last forms were mailed in Monday, March 22, 2009. Now, we wait for the social worker to complete her work and send us a notarized copy. Once we receive that, we mail that along with a few other forms to Atlanta and we are done. We only have to wait for the fingerprinting appointment. Nice and easy.

Our builders have been able to work a little more on our crown molding and trim. It looks great. Still no solution on the flashing on the roof. I think we were just overwhelmed with all the house decisions and home study we just put that on the back burner.

Another Form Mailed

I picked up our medical statements from the doctor yesterday and delivered the forms to the post office myself. Another check mark. This weekend, we will complete the financial statement and our taxes. Those be in the mail Monday morning.

We are also working at the house this weekend. Well, Tide Guy is while I recover from a really bad cold. I need to shop vac more sheet rock dust, but probably won't since I can't really breathe right now. Adding the dust to my respiratory system could not be too smart.

That is it for today.

Tide Gal & Tide Guy

It's Over!

We are done with the visit. She swept in and out within 35 minutes. We spent 3 full nights scrubbing, vacuuming, straightening, moving, dusting, wiping, etc and she never left the one room she walked in first. Man. So much wasted cleaning. Asked a few questions, got the check, and whoosh, she was gone.

To celebrate, I went shopping and Tide Guy went to the new house to pick up nails and bricks. We are such party animals.

Now, we only need to finshing a few forms and get the completed form from the doctor. No big deal. Once completed, we will get an appointment for fingerprinting and we'll be done.

Glad today is over!

Tide Gal

Home Study today!

Our homestudy review is in 1 hour and 45 minutes!! Ugh.

Good news: I made 5 copies each of our driver's license, marriage license, passports, and birth certificates. I will have these on hand when I need them again in 18 months for our next review! I'll be ready and more organized then!!

Bad news: Last night we thought we had lost our 797. Then, later thought we found it. Then!! Just now I realized it was NOT our 797. It was the letter we received for our fingerprinting appointment in 2007!! Oh, boy. This is not good. Realizing we can't find this extremely important NECESSARY form just before our homestudy is making my blood pressure go up....fast!

Wish us luck!
Tide Gal & Tide Guy

Our Homestudy

We are knee deep in our homestudy update. Our reference letters have all been mailed to our family and friends and some have already returned them to our agency. We have submitted over half of our paperwork and Tide Guy did his medical this morning. I will have my medical updated tomorrow. We are slowly getting it all done. Yesterday, Tide Guy called our agency to set up our appointment and we are scheduled for Thursday at 2:00. Yikes. That gave us three nights to clean. And, boy, do we need to clean a lot. Last night we got the majority of the hard stuff done.

I just realized I missed the 16th month anniversary of our waiting on March 6, 2009. Yeah. Whoopee....

Our builder did some trim work around some windows and walls yesterday. It is fancy and looks great! Too bad the rain has stopped. When it is pretty, he goes to another house and works outside. When it is raining, we get him inside. We need rain! Lots of slow, day consuming rain!

Have a good St. Patrick's Day...Happy Green!

Tide Gal and Tide Guy

Trimmings!

Our builder put up some trim and crown in the upstairs bedroom for us to look at yesterday. We decided we love it and he is to start all the windows and crown in the upstairs bedrooms. We are going to use this on all of the windows upstairs and probably some downstairs. I think today he is going to put up some around a door for us to check.

Moving on........................finally.