What a difference a day makes...

A day makes a great deal of difference in God's creation. It is His perfect timing that brings things to fruition. We have heard from a potential facilitator, I mired through the list of papers I have to have and found the one with a lot of needed info on it, it was filed incorrectly. I have to order an extra or two of my birth certificate since that is needed a zillion times over by everyone. Today and tomorrow are total paperwork days. We also have some things we have to do that were recommended by a friend who is a financial planner and donated his time to us to help us get a handle on the financial end of things. Our freezer that had died last week is now on the to be replaced list for the summer when the garden comes in. That was a whole nightmare in and of itself. To grow a garden is a lot of work and to see it almost all destroyed by a freezer that quit working was hard. But God has been faithful to us every step of the way.
The thing that would have helped us the most was a list of what to do in what order. We knew we needed to file the I600A and I600, but then we faced a huge list and no idea what order. Our biggest challenge has been our birth certificate issues, which are required for two parts of this process at the same time. So after someone files their I 600 our recommendation is to get certified copies of your birth certificates (2-3). You have to send them for your passport application and you have to have them for your homestudy. You need to do your passport quickly as you have to have it for your dossier. Find your facilitator early and get your homestudy going. We did our medicals early and will probably have to redo them, but we had our regular physicals schedules so we did them. Maybe we will be lucky and be finished quickly who knows, I hate the thought of having to take the syphllis and Aids tests again. If someone knows of a good checklist for what to do in what order, we would love to find that. It would really have helped in the birth certificate frustrations. Mike's is not bad he can run into town and pick up a certified copy, me I have to order mine from New York and wait on it. I am tempted to make the drive just to get it done quickly, but 15 hours to Albany this time of year...not a pleasant thought. God is so good in His timing. I will trust Him. He may just have to knock a little harder to make it clear to this confused follower as to what I should be doing in His plan next :)