28 minutes!

It has been two days of cleaning, scrubbing, and hiding things in the closet for the update to our home study. Our social worker came in, sat on our couch, reviewed our last home study and asked for any changes. That was it! She was gone in twenty-eight minutes and never looked around the house :) Oh well! Today I can sit back and relax now that is over!

We also had an appointment for our fingerprints to be checked again by USCIS. And guess what? We woke up to a layer of snow on the roads and lots of sleet. All the schools are closed and we weren't sure if the USCIS office was open. We could only find a number to the national office and couldn't reach a real person. On our appointment notice it said "if you fail to appear as scheduled, your application will be considered abandoned." Pretty serious stuff. So, we bundled up and headed out to see if it was open. And it was!!! I was so excited! This means we'll get our updated I-171H in time for court.

Two days away from our first court date! I need to stop obsessing over this. I keep checking the calender, checking the time in Ethiopia, and calculating how much longer we have. We would love to hear our real court date on Friday, but I probably shouldn't get my hopes up. IF everything is approved, it might be next week before we hear. We're not even sure if MOWA has all the information they need. Lots to pray about!