Off to Translate!

Got an email today saying our dossier is off to translation! We can finally sit back for a few months and let everyone else work! Of course this is the hard part because we have to sit and wait with nothing to do!

Davis keeps asking about his sister! It's so cute. He keeps saying he is going to help out with diapers and bottles! I wish he was a bit older to truly understand what is going on but I also want him to have a sister close in age. He loves babies right now! In fact, I just brought my babies that were mine home from my parents house and he is sleeping with one of them!

So we did screw up!

Well, apparently the salary of my husbands that was in the homestudy didn't match the salary on his employment sheet so we had to redo that form! Also, I apostilled the FBI fingerprint cards for Milon and I together and they should have been separate so I had to redo that also. Needless to say this post is old and I have already taken care of both.

Dossier sent off to Texas!

Today we finally mailed off our "new"dossier to get translated. I am nervous because our adoption agency has to do one finally look again. With as fast as we threw the forms together I am sure we missed something!! We will have to see!

And the Problems Start....

So up until now we have been working on approximately 25 documents that we will need to go to the Secretary of States office in NC to get apostilled. This means that they look up every person that has notarized our documents and make sure they are an official notary. Well, our adoption agency gave me what she thought was the new NC notary wording so on all of the documents I replaced the wording before filling them out and having them notarized. Today, I took all of the completed documents down to get apostilled and the wording is wrong! It was correct the way it originally was! So, we have to redo ALL of the documents! We know with every adoption, snags are hit along the way and we are just hoping this is our big one!

I71H Received!

We finally received our I71H approval today! We submitted our paperwork on Sept 5, 2007. NC is one of the longer processing time states (4 months of waiting!). This will allow us to bring our child back into the US.

HomeStudy Done!

Today we received our final homestudy in the mail. This process took 2 meetings in a Social Workers home and 1 in ours! We spoke with her on everything from our childhood, to our parents, our marriage, our parenting styles, how we plan to raise our adopted daughter. I thought the process would be dreadful, but it turned out to be a lot of fun! The social worker combined all of our personal and marriage history, financial information, and preferences for an adopted child to form our HomeStudy.

The Month of Paperwork

I am really glad I am a stay at home mom doing this adoption, because if I weren't I would probably be fired! Between all of the signing, notarizing, copying, organizing it is really a lot of work! We have employment verification, financial, mortgage letters, marriage license, medical records, FBI fingerprints and background checks, pictures, passports, etc that all get combined to form your "dossier."

Although this seems like an awful amount of work, this is way better than my last pregnancy so I am not complaining!! I was on bedrest for 6 months...although looking back I had it pretty easy! My biggest problem was on Sundays when there wasn't much on TV!