I feel almost apologetic when I am needing to purge myself of the recent paper chase updates on this blog. Then I remember that it is my blog. And as double reaffirmation (does that equal four?), this blog hasn't even been public anymore for nearly a couple months. By the time I re-publish this blog nobody will even see this post...SO! I will ramble here as opposed to some poor soul who has the unfortunate kindness to ask how the adoption is coming.
I don't have a TON to tell since two days ago, but we get our IBESR letter notarized as well as getting our judicial POA re-notarized yesterday! One of my friends also got her letter of recommendation notarized and in to us yesterday! Now today Mark's authenticated birth certificate came in the mail and I got a call from our insurance company saying our letter of coverage was "approved" and ready to email out to us. Of course that was this morning and I haven't gotten it yet, but I'm hopeful to see it by the end of the day. That insurance letter is the last thing we need before our home study can be finalized, so that's pretty exciting!
Outside of immigration stuff (which is filled out with a cashiers check attached and already in an addressed envelope...just waiting for our home study) - other than that, the only thing we are waiting on are our psych evaluations and our last notarized (and in this case also authenticated) letter of recommendation to arrive in the mail! That's it! Then we can get our entire dossier authenticated and translated! Wahoo! I'm seeing the light at the end of this paper chase tunnel.
This is a little bit number nerdy, but I was hoping we could have everything done by a week from today. March 12th. We found out that our Ethiopian adoption was falling through on November 12th. After a month of intense research and prayer we turned in our first application to adopt from Haiti with WIAA on December 12th. The time between November and December 12th felt a lot longer than a month because it was intense and emotional. Lots of lost sleep. But it was only one month. And while the last (nearly) three months has felt a little bit longer also because we've intensely worked on getting all our paperwork done...I'm really pleased with the pace. Getting all our home study and dossier documents gathered and completed in two months is fantastic. Oh! And our home study visit with our caseworker happened on January 12th!
So, here's my hope (we'll see what happens): If we can have our updated home study reviewed and finalized, immigration paperwork submitted, dossier approved by Wasatch and authenticated and sent off to be translated by one week from today...that would be awesome.
Here's to hoping.
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