So, it's been a while...

since the last post. I know. I kept waiting until I had something interesting to write about and have now realized the only thing that does is alienate those who are trying to walk through this with us from a distance. I'm sorry. We've hit a waiting time earlier than I thought...and it's, unfortunately, not a productive waiting time. It's not as if we are waiting on a referral, or for a court date, or for travel plans to be cleared up...we are waiting on emails and government offices and the postal service--just to finish our dossier. That's right. It's been this long and we are STILL not paper-ready.

The good news is that we are closer. We have every document completed except the employment letter and that, hopefully will be completed and emailed by next week. The next step for us is to send our home study to USCIS here in Rome, and mail all of our original documents to Georgia for the final compilation of our dossier. So today, Friday the 11th, will be devoted to printing out, signing, and addressing all of the mail that needs to go out and hopefully Monday we can get it all in the mail (that is, if we receive the employment letters by then). After this step, we don't know what's next. The dossier has many steps to go before we are cleared to wait for a referral...as far as we know right now, it has to be approved by two offices in the States and then submitted for translation, before it will be approved by Ethiopia. We are still so vague on the details. I know by the end of this we will be experts...

Thanks for checking back in. I'm not sure I will be great at updating when I have nothing to say, but I will try. And hopefully, very soon, we WILL have things to say :-). Be sure to keep praying for our daughter, we don't know her, but most likely she's been born or is soon to be...