Paper Cuts.

Ouch.

You know how they say labor is painful and that as soon as you have that
grimy
sweet
placenta-covered
newborn in your arms
you forget all about it?
I guess that's true.

But let me tell you....I'm in labor now
with a 7 year old
and my uterus is in China.
Ha.
That was funny.
Or gross.
I'm not sure which.

Regardless,
there's no epidural....and I am a big, big, big believer in epidurals.
{cuz I'm weak like that}
and all those memories are coming back.
Someone give me the happy juice ~ stat.

Our home study is written and ready for submission to NBC.
Just had to be re-fingerprinted.
No bigs.
No bigs only there seems to be a disconnect between the law and the process. 
Our state and FBI prints that our state requires, are valid for two years.

We are well within the two year time frame.
But.
But our home study agency is required to re-print all potential adoptive families as part of their vetting process.
Super.
Except "the system" does not allow you to do so.

So we have spent the last two weeks on the phone and on email with our local DHR office, the company in VA that runs these prints, their IT people(not kidding) and a couple hundred other people in between them.
It's been big fun.

We essentially have to be kicked out of their system in order to re-register for this adoption.
They didn't so much want to do this as they kept insisting that we were cleared and our prints are still valid.
Well yesterday that was finally figured out.
And then not two hours later I got a call that our forms were out-dated so we got a rejection notice.
What.
The.
Heck.

Could anyone have noticed this a week or two ago?
Anyone?
Bueller?
I told you I need an epidural. 

Will someone puh-lease ring the anesthesiologist
and bring me better hospital food
these paper cuts are going to be intense.