I hate my agency this morning. I have my dossier all ready to take to Harrisburg for certification. I was planning to go tomorrow. It has taken us 2 1/2 months to reach this point. I’ve redone the employment letters twice for both of us. I’ve gotten 4 different doctors signatures for each of us striving for the most legible. I’ve painstakingly explained the need for legible signatures more times that I can count. I scanned all my documents for agency approval, expecting no problems. Now? I have to re-do EVERY. F*CKING. ONE. Because some of the signatures aren’t legible enough. The only things they approved were our 171H (which can’t really not be approved unless there is a mistake) and our police clearance letters because we were lucky to get a signature at all rather than a stamp.
I cried for 15 minutes after reading the email. Hell, I’m still crying. I don’t have the energy to re-do them all. Maybe adoption wasn’t the right choice. Or maybe our agency isn’t the right agency. No other agency that I am aware of requires that every signature be picture perfect script for every single document. So my questions are: Do we scrap this whole adoption because I just can’t emotionally go through another 2 months of gathering signatures? Or do I eat the loss of $2500 and switch agencies knowing that another agency would consider us paper-ready? Or do I suck it up and do what I have to do to make our agency happy?
Maybe in a few hours, option #3 will feel right, but at the moment I have to say I’m leaning toward option #2. Right now, it just seems too hard.