Fingerprint Appointments!

Ah, the long awaited fingerprint appointment letters came today! We are to be in Des Moines at 10:00 sharp two weeks from today. (Why must we wait so long?) There was a little drama regarding USCIS last week, with emails going back and forth a couple times, a new homestudy report, and a quick call to our family coordinator. The first bump was that our homestudy did not say how many "siblings" we were approved to adopt. It simply states that we are approved to adopt "biological siblings under the age of 48 months." Our original application says we would like to bring 2 orphans into the country as our children (might as well aim high). Okay, can "siblings" mean any less than two? And we know that we can't bring in more than two because we only asked for two. So, what the confusion was, I'm not sure. We did, however, have to submit a new homestudy report approving us to adopt "two biological siblings". Then, we received an email asking if we were adopting from Rwanda or Ethiopia. We are requesting to file for our return visa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as the US Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, does not yet issue these. Apparently, this confused our "friend" at USCIS. Most Rwandan adoptions go to Kenya to get the visa. One quick phone call to Ryan (family coord.) to get the right words to say to our "friend" and an email to our "friend" later, we got the whole thing straightened out. And today, we found out we will wait two more weeks to actually begin our wait for the I-171H. Boy, that sounded ungrateful, didn't it? I'm so thankful for our fingerprint appointment notice arriving today. God is good, all the time.