Ministry Letter of Approval

Terri and I just found out that our letter of approval from the Ministry of Ontario ran out in August of this year. We thought that it was good for two years but I guess not. They are apparently only good for eighteen months. We were saying aren't we lucky that we didn't receive a referral between August and now. I wish that our adoption agency had sent out notices to their clients that are close to the end of their Ministry letter of approval date. That would have been nice. Now we have to get ahold of our adoption practitioner and arrange an update to our home study. This includes new medicals for each of us, new local police checks for each of us. Our adoption practitioner has to come to our home to do an update. She has to call all of the people who wrote letters on our behalf and ask them if they still believe that we would be good parents. Will it ever end. Once the update to our home study is done it has to be sent away to the Ministry of Ontario for approval again. The new letter is good for an additional two years. Hopefully that will be long enough. If not I will probably be insane from all the emotional crap involved leading up to the actual adoption. Oh well, enough with the venting today.