Gettin' down

If you read the title of this post and thought I was about to start dancing, then you are sadly mistaken.  I mean gettin' down like "I'm totally about to get into a depressed state and it ain't gonna' be pretty".  O.K., I really don't talk like that but I'm trying to talk myself into being funny, thus in a chippier mood.  Doug and I just turned in our ump-teenth update to our adoption paperwork.  We will do our updated fingerprinting soon and all of this should last for 18 more months.  The CCAA (China Center for Adoption Affairs) made it 4 more days in January.  At this rate we are thinking it will be 28 MORE months of a wait for us, putting it at a grand total of .....(drum-roll please).....6 1/2-7 year wait.  That being said, we will eventually lose our grandfathered status (18 mo. from now) and have to continue our adoption through a process called Hague.  Long story short, it means more paperwork, classes, money, etc...  The cherry on top of my life right now was when I checked the updated cost scale for our adoption.  It looks as thought the reminder of our cost to complete the adoption is around $20,000.  Not the total....the REMAINDER of our cost.  I'm beginning to get a little overwhelmed at this whole process.  It was supposed to be a 12-15 month wait with $20K being the total cost.  Things are spiraling out of control on this process right now.  Please keep us in your prayers as we have some decisions to make before this is all completed.