*A Few Vain Efforts

Today we tried to get our police clearance – yesterday too. The Mill Creek Police Dept sent us to the sheriffs, who sent us to the county records dept in Everett, where we went today. The lady there had never heard of them doing it for the general public, only their employees, and made some calls for us – to the state patrol, who directed us to a website. We looked at the website, but are not sure this is really what we need. So, we wait for Monday to make a call to our agency with more questions. I ask them a lot of questions!

And, I talked with our social worker today. Sounds like it will take him about 2 weeks to compile our home study, and within a week or so we will do phone interviews. We need to be reading a book that I ordered today as part of our education.

I’m nervous about my passport. It expires next June (08). To renew it I have to send in my current one – so I can’t need it for the next 3 months at least. And, then I have to have the new one’s info added to our Dossier, which I hope is done soon.

Koen’s been happy the last 2 days. It’s nice. But, I feel like my body is falling apart. My ankles have been killing me the last week or so – aching all the time, and it hurts to drive. And then we got a new baby jogger so we’ve been enjoying the novelty of it and jogged for 10 minutes 2 days in a row. My knee hurts again – won’t straiten, and feels like the cyst is back. My elbow and wrist hurt too. I think I have arthritis, and it scares me because I’m only 29. I don’t want to hurt like this for so much of my life. Maybe when I’m 60!