"No Fly" Zone
I wanted to keep you guessing by the title of the blog post tonight.... still nothing?! :) Well, we got good news... no... GREAT news about the adoption this past week. Most of you probably did not know this fact, but Zane is not technically "ours" yet in the legal sense of the word. Of course, he came from our hearts so of course he is ours , but that final signature by a judge and receipt of a Social Security card have not happened yet. Long story short, one of the 2 adoption judges in Oklahoma got into some legal trouble and had to step down, putting the adoption (and hundreds of others) behind in the already backlogged system there. We have been getting frustrated, thinking he might be as old as a 12 months before we'd get to close officially. And to close on our adoption, the archaic OK system required that we (meaning both parents and Zane) all travel back to OKC, stand before a judge for literally 5 minutes, show that we are upstanding parents, sig...