Waiting Game

We started this adoption process over a year ago and sometimes it feels like there a million road blocks.  Like, why do we need to be fingerprinted by different government agencies?  If I was really a criminal, wouldn't that come up in my FBI prints, why does immigration need to run their own prints.  And we both work jobs where they run your prints- you can't work with kids in most states without a background check.  Oh, and the Peace Corps fingerprints you too. 
 
We are still waiting for our immigration notice in the mail, we got the digital approval a few days ago, but can't go for our prints without the snail mail version.  Ugh, who thought of this system? 
I know its for the best for everyone- adoptive parents, birth parents and especially the child, but it can be down right frustrating. 
So at this point, we are realistically looking at a homecoming of 2015.  Yup, 2015.  By the time our documents are registered with the MOJ, and we still need- USCIS fingerprints, dossier translated, dossier sent, dossier registered- which brings us to December/January- then its about 18-24 months for a referral for a younger mostly healthy child. 
Patience is a virtue.  We can't get overwhelmed with the wait now.  I anticipate the wait between the visits to be the most difficult.   You go on your first trip to meet the little one, then you have to wait 3-6 months before you can go pick him/her up!  This waiting period is frustrating; that waiting period will be agony.
We started looking into our next adoption.  Putting the cart before the horse?  I don't think so.  We always planned on being a family of 4, we are a year into this one, better start preparing (and saving) for the next.  Or else the next 8 years of my life will be spent- gathering documents, visiting the notary and apostille, getting medical checks, tracking down my police and criminal clearances, driving record, etc.  I can't imagine finding the time for all that while caring for a little guy!