Joey - how wonderful that things a moving so quickly with the adoption process.  Perhaps it won&#39;t be a long as you originally thought.    Are you and David considering getting married at Jackie&#39;s Inn.   That would be so wonderful for all of you.<br /><br />Many years ago our dear friends were in the process of adopting and needed a letter of recommendation from us.   Of course I wrote a glowing letter for them but then since the typewriter was out (which shows how long ago it was - I used a manual typewriter) I wrote a &quot;joke&quot; letter also.   Things like they never proved how her first husband ended up in bed without a head and they never proved he did rob those atomic bombs, etc.   Just a whole lot of nonsense.   When we handed them the fake letter, they never opened it and said they trusted us.   I had to fess us real quickly and boy did we have a laugh over that.   I then gave them the real letter.    We still joke about the fake one (and their baby son is now turing 30 this year)  Good luck - I&#39;m sure you will find excellent references.