Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Adoption Update : High Road to China (with apologies to Douglas Adams)
Today we received word from Great Wall that all of our paperwork has been finalized, certified, blessed, signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as fire lighters.
It is now on its way to China and will arrive Monday, at which point someone will walk it over to the CCCA and we will receive our official login date. This is a big day - it's the moment at which our wait officially (as far as the Chinese are concerned) begins. We will not find out what day this is for around a month, as they get a crapload of these these things in on a regular basis, and it can take a while for them to get around to sending us official word, but that's OK. The big thing is that next week we're in the hands of the people that matter most.
There's more stuff to come as we transition from the paperwork phase to prepping for our trip phase, and we'll get into all of that as it becomes appropriate. For now we're basking in the relief that the only thing standing between us and the baby(ies) we've so desperately wanted for so very long is time.
It is now on its way to China and will arrive Monday, at which point someone will walk it over to the CCCA and we will receive our official login date. This is a big day - it's the moment at which our wait officially (as far as the Chinese are concerned) begins. We will not find out what day this is for around a month, as they get a crapload of these these things in on a regular basis, and it can take a while for them to get around to sending us official word, but that's OK. The big thing is that next week we're in the hands of the people that matter most.
There's more stuff to come as we transition from the paperwork phase to prepping for our trip phase, and we'll get into all of that as it becomes appropriate. For now we're basking in the relief that the only thing standing between us and the baby(ies) we've so desperately wanted for so very long is time.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
I Hate Yello Yushrooms
We just left this eatery no less than 5 minutes ago, and forgot our leftover box of pizza. When we went back to ask for it, they claimed to know nothing about such a box. I say, "they suck, and you must all boycott Yellow Yushrooms!" They suck. Do not go there, for your own safety. Join me in the fight against unfair pizzary.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
As the World Turns
Happy 14th Wedding Anniversary, my love!
(ha ha, I win!)
P.S. The traditional 14th wedding anniversary gift is ivory! No way am I getting her ivory, that's just wrong! No gift for you this year sweetie, sorry!
(ha ha, I win!)
P.S. The traditional 14th wedding anniversary gift is ivory! No way am I getting her ivory, that's just wrong! No gift for you this year sweetie, sorry!
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Adoption update : An ending, and a beginning
It's the one you've all been waiting for!
ALL PAPERWORK IS COMPLETED
At the end of last week we finally received our long-awaited I797 form from the government with a status of APPROVED! Since we were due to leave for New York the next day, we didn't have a chance to make the notarized copy of this document required for our last batch of paperwork, and so it had to wait until our (well, my) return from NYC.
Today, I sent the last fedex package I shall have to send to the Great Wall China Adoption Agency for this batch of kid(s). There's literally nothing left to do for us but wait for them to send us pictures of our desperately longed-for baby (or, for which it is fervently to be hoped, babies), and then to go get them.
And now, we wait.
How long? Anywhere from 5 months (wildly optimistic and rare) to 2 years (wildly pessimistic, but certainly possible). I'd get on a plane tomorrow if I thought it would help, but I think we're lucky in that we need some time to prepare the room we've been calling "The Baby's Room" since we moved into this house, and we're likely to get it. Not too much time, I hope. Time's a wasting.
Say it with me : WHEW!!!!
ALL PAPERWORK IS COMPLETED
At the end of last week we finally received our long-awaited I797 form from the government with a status of APPROVED! Since we were due to leave for New York the next day, we didn't have a chance to make the notarized copy of this document required for our last batch of paperwork, and so it had to wait until our (well, my) return from NYC.
Today, I sent the last fedex package I shall have to send to the Great Wall China Adoption Agency for this batch of kid(s). There's literally nothing left to do for us but wait for them to send us pictures of our desperately longed-for baby (or, for which it is fervently to be hoped, babies), and then to go get them.
And now, we wait.
How long? Anywhere from 5 months (wildly optimistic and rare) to 2 years (wildly pessimistic, but certainly possible). I'd get on a plane tomorrow if I thought it would help, but I think we're lucky in that we need some time to prepare the room we've been calling "The Baby's Room" since we moved into this house, and we're likely to get it. Not too much time, I hope. Time's a wasting.
Say it with me : WHEW!!!!
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