Dossier To Ethiopia!!!

I wasn't expecting to get an email from our agency today, but I just happened to check and received an email stating that our dossier is on it's way to Ethiopia!!! WOW! I knew that they had sent it to DC to be authenticated. Pretty exciting!

China: 37 Months

I haven't really been keeping track of China referrals or updates lately. It's too much. I'm trying to just focus on our Ethiopian adoption right now and some adoption books that I've been reading. Plenty to keep me busy! No newly finished craft projects yet either. Slowly working on finishing another crocheted blanket, but that's about it.

List Movement!

If I have this right, I think we just moved up one spot on the list today! According to our agency site, a family accepted a referral for 2 four year old boys today and that family was on all the lists (baby girl, baby boy, toddler girl, toddler boy and siblings) and everyone (after a specified number) moves up one slot.. so we are now at #49 (if i have that right). Very exciting!

ON THE LIST!!!!!

YES!!!!!!! I decided to check my email a little less than an hour ago and saw the email from IAN that WE ARE ON THE LIST!!!!!! #50!!!!!! YES! YES! YES!

So now we official get to wait more, but just to be on the list is such a huge relief. Now we just watch the list go down down down till they get to us. I'm not even going to try to predict how long that is going to take, but hey, I've been waiting a looooong time already. I'm used to it at this point. LOL

YES!!

Tracking..

I'm not stalking Fedex..

(woohoo!)

Final Docs Off To Agency!!

I received the last documents I needed from our home study agency and Fedex'd everything to our agency today!!!! They should have it tomorrow morning!! I hope all of that is in order and we will hear something by end of day tomorrow.. although I have a feeling I will have to suffer through the weekend before getting on the waiting list. It's going to be a loooooong weekend!!

Oh and it's our 5th wedding anniversary too today!!

No Documents Today..

Maybe tomorrow... if tomorrow, then homestudy and final docs can be with agency by Friday. Probably won't get on the list till next week.

The baby girl list is up to #50. Ouch. When we started in Jan it was at #24. More than doubled. Can I make it in at or under #55?

We shall see.

Sooooo Close...

Today we received our home study in the mail!! I was sooooooo excited as I was all prepared to turn around and throw that and a few other agency required docs into a Fedex envelope and ship it off to our agency, but then noticed that the home study agency left out 2 docs that we need. We called them and they had the 2 docs right there, already filled out and will send them today so hopefully we will get them by Wednesday. We also called our agency and they said that as soon as they get the rest of the docs, they bring them over to the placement agency and we should get on the waiting list shortly after that, hopefully by end of this week, assuming the homestudy agency mailed out the remaining docs today and assuming we get them by Wednesday. I was a little bummed because I feel like we should have gotten our homestudy a little sooner than we did, and then for it to be missing documents that I specifically requested, well I was a little annoyed. But hey, we're still soooooo close to getting on the list!! A few days isn't going to matter that much in the long run.