We just found out yesterday that reaccreditation may not be final until early fall, so our dossier won't be submitted until later than we thought. I guess there's no hurry now on getting those two documents redone or rushing to get everything apostilled. I am so bummed that this already long process will now be even longer! Aack!
Is it weird to miss someone that you haven't even met? I miss our daughter even though I don't even know who she is yet.
"But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently" Romans 8:25 (I have had this taped to my bathroom mirror for the past year or so.)
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Puttering around
Just puttering around today, trying to find things for the yard sale we're having in the middle of August. So far I have some clothes and a lot of teacher books. I'm moving into a new classroom at a new school after teaching at the same school for 7 years, so I have a lot of stuff accumulated that I need to get rid of. Will be going through boxes from school later today.
I'm also working on baking for a wedding cake that I'm making for this weekend. Five tiers and two sheet cakes is a lot of baking! It's going to have round cakes with white frosting and copper colored dots alternated with square cakes with copper frosting and white swirls and cornelli lace. I'll try to post a picture when it's done.
We got an email from Sarah, our adoption coordinator telling us that the dossier paperwork that had to be notarized by the social worker is on it's way back to us. I had also emailed the Secretary of States' office to see if they ever give appointments to have papers apostilled, but she said they only do that for five or fewer documents. On a positive note, she did say that most people Fed-Ex them and have them returned within 3-4 days (the voice recording that I called said 30 days and I kind of freaked out!).
I'll be out of town all week next week at a teacher training , so Chris will probably be sending the papers for apostille, then making the copies to send with the original to the agency. Thats' going to be hard since I'm such a control freak, I like to do everything myself, though I'm learning quickly to let go through this whole process.
I think I might go out and get some pictures for the baby's room today. I saw some cute flower prints the other day. They're kind of small but I thought if I clustered 4 together they might look good. Right now the walls are bare except for new yellow paint that we did right before our social worker came for our 1st homestudy visit. My mom is going to get furniture for the room between our two trips after we know how big our daughter will be. We've asked for a girl younger than 24 months, but there's a big difference between an 8 month old and a two-year old. I'm kind of hoping she's on the younger side, especially since this is our first child. We found a beautiful crib online at Target.com that I love. We'll probably get it either way since it's a convertible crib. Oh, well, enough typing for now, gotta get back to work on yard sale stuff and laundry.
I'm also working on baking for a wedding cake that I'm making for this weekend. Five tiers and two sheet cakes is a lot of baking! It's going to have round cakes with white frosting and copper colored dots alternated with square cakes with copper frosting and white swirls and cornelli lace. I'll try to post a picture when it's done.
We got an email from Sarah, our adoption coordinator telling us that the dossier paperwork that had to be notarized by the social worker is on it's way back to us. I had also emailed the Secretary of States' office to see if they ever give appointments to have papers apostilled, but she said they only do that for five or fewer documents. On a positive note, she did say that most people Fed-Ex them and have them returned within 3-4 days (the voice recording that I called said 30 days and I kind of freaked out!).
I'll be out of town all week next week at a teacher training , so Chris will probably be sending the papers for apostille, then making the copies to send with the original to the agency. Thats' going to be hard since I'm such a control freak, I like to do everything myself, though I'm learning quickly to let go through this whole process.
I think I might go out and get some pictures for the baby's room today. I saw some cute flower prints the other day. They're kind of small but I thought if I clustered 4 together they might look good. Right now the walls are bare except for new yellow paint that we did right before our social worker came for our 1st homestudy visit. My mom is going to get furniture for the room between our two trips after we know how big our daughter will be. We've asked for a girl younger than 24 months, but there's a big difference between an 8 month old and a two-year old. I'm kind of hoping she's on the younger side, especially since this is our first child. We found a beautiful crib online at Target.com that I love. We'll probably get it either way since it's a convertible crib. Oh, well, enough typing for now, gotta get back to work on yard sale stuff and laundry.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Where we are now
Our adoption journey began about 7 months ago when we went to an adoption seminar after stopping infertility treatments (we tried unsuccessfully to have a baby for six years and decided to stop after two failed IVF's). After the seminar, the next day we applied to adopt a little one from Russia. We weren't really sure how we would pay for the adoption, but we trusted that if the adoption was a part of God's plan that He would make a way. One day as I was praying about how to pay for the adoption, the phone rang and it was our mortgage company offering us a home equity loan for the amount of the adoption, and amazingly enough the guy's name was "Jesus". Okay, God I'm listening!
We are now almost finished with our dossier, we have a few more documents that need to be redone before we can send them for apostille. Chris has to get his employment letter redone because the dates don't match and then we have to have one of our other notarized papers redone because the notary scratched out a date and rewrote it over the top of the old date. It's really frustrating having to keep redoing things, we might have to redo our criminal record check because the notary's commision expires in November. Then we'll also have to redo our bloodwork between our first and second trip, not sure why, but the doctor marked through a mistake on the paper so I guess we'd have to have it redone anyway.
Our agency tells us that we may wait 9-12 months for a referral, but hopefully it won't take that long. We'd love to be able to make our first trip before Christmas, I'll guess we'll just wait and see.
We applied for a grant from Shaohannah's Hope but we won't hear back about that for at least 3 months. We have also started an online fundraiser at currentfun.com. (If you feel like shopping, check it out. They give us 50% of the sales towards the adoption. Our state is Virginia and the organization name is : Chris and Susan Banchero, you just shop then enter our info at checkout.) I'll let you know how it goes, it seems pretty easy and straightforward.
We are now almost finished with our dossier, we have a few more documents that need to be redone before we can send them for apostille. Chris has to get his employment letter redone because the dates don't match and then we have to have one of our other notarized papers redone because the notary scratched out a date and rewrote it over the top of the old date. It's really frustrating having to keep redoing things, we might have to redo our criminal record check because the notary's commision expires in November. Then we'll also have to redo our bloodwork between our first and second trip, not sure why, but the doctor marked through a mistake on the paper so I guess we'd have to have it redone anyway.
Our agency tells us that we may wait 9-12 months for a referral, but hopefully it won't take that long. We'd love to be able to make our first trip before Christmas, I'll guess we'll just wait and see.
We applied for a grant from Shaohannah's Hope but we won't hear back about that for at least 3 months. We have also started an online fundraiser at currentfun.com. (If you feel like shopping, check it out. They give us 50% of the sales towards the adoption. Our state is Virginia and the organization name is : Chris and Susan Banchero, you just shop then enter our info at checkout.) I'll let you know how it goes, it seems pretty easy and straightforward.
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