Is the glass 1/2 full or 1/2 empty?

One of my online friends who is using the same agency that we are has just gotten back from meeting her new son. She found out on June 20th that she’d be traveling July 2nd, then on
July 3rd they met their son. So, that would mean that at any given moment we are possibly 2 weeks away from meeting our daughter. That's what I call the glass is half-full way of looking at it. But, if you think that it is around 5 weeks between the end of trip one and the beginning of trip 2 then at any given moment we are no closer that 2 months away from bringing our daughter home. So, at best that would be September 9th at the very, very soonest. Whether I consider the glass half-full or half-empty depends on the time of day...

Sorry so long since my last post

Quickly...

We did get some updated info and hope to travel in August. Hope is the operative word there. When I look back at my previous posts, I can't believe I have survived this wait. There I days I think I'll go crazy and every minute feels like an eternity. Then I look back and see that somehow, we're plugging along and the months are passing.

May Post - NO NEWS AGAIN!!! More pictures.

I am beyond annoyed that June begins tomorrow and we still have no news. GRRRRRR! Here is a picture of the adorable dresses I have bought for Chloe on ebay. They average $7.00 each including shipping. This is how I am managing the wait. I'm sure there are less expensive ways, but how cute are these dresses!

April Post - No News Just Pictures

I have no new information, no update, NADA! But, I do have some pictures of the nusery. We still need to hang the mirror on the wall and add some art work. As you can see we've decided on the name Chloe.

March 15, 2006 - Home Visit

Ginny, our social worker, came out last night for the homevisit that's required as part of our homestudy update. Our first one doesn't expire until June, but our agency thought we should be proactive and start the update now. It takes about 2 months to get updated even though nothing has changed except that we're all a year older. Hmmmm boring news... I hope for something more exciting soon.

March 2006 - More Paper Work

Well, we have sent in a new round of documents. Every piece of paper work has a shelf life and ours are close to running out. We were fingerprinted again for the state and sent those forms along with the child abuse clearance check forms to our homestudy social worker. Then we sent updated employment letters, mortgage letters and marriage license to our caseworker at our agency. Our sweet baby girl should be off the registry now or soon, so we'll just do some more waiting.

Welcome Post - 2/2006

Welcome to our new way to keep you all up to date on our adoption process. Here's a quick recap of our timeline so far.
January 13, 2005
We decided to adopt and requested information from an agency.
January 29, 2005-Finally Started
We sent in our home study application and began filling out the agency application.
February 10, 2005-First Meeting for the Homestudy
We had our first meeting for the home study.
February 22, 2005
I sent in our application to the agency along with pictures of our home and family.
February 25, 2005 - Application Received
The agency received our application.
March 1, 2005 - 2nd Meeting for Homestudy
Well, 2 down and 1 to go.
March 14, 2005-Home Visit
Finally, the home visit is over and everything went well.
March 22, 2004-600A form
We sent in our 600A form to the USCIS aka INS. Normally this is sent in at the same time you begin your homestudy, but our agency suggested we wait. The reason is that when USCIS receives the form they will give us an appointment to get fingerprinted and the finger prints are good for 15 months. The agency is concerned that it will take longer than that to complete our adoption and we would have to redo our fingerprints, forms, pay more $, etc.
April 26, 2005 -Hooray! The appointment is made!
Our home study is finally complete and we were able to make our appointment with our agency for June 8, 2005
April 30, 2005 - We got our filing date.
We received an envelope from USCIS (Formerly INS) stating that our I600A was received and it gave us a filing date. This allows our social worker to send our home study to them so that we can get appointments to be fingerprinted.
June 8, 2005 - We Had Our Interview
Yeah, we had our interview. It went great.
June 15, 2005 - One More Little Step
There has been a hold up with the final draft of our home study. After many incomplete answers from the social worker's secretary, we finally figured out that we were supposed to have been fingerprinted for the "state police clearance." She never told us that or gave us any information on it. Anyway, we finally figured it out and I was fingerprinted on June 7 and Justin was fingerprinted on June 14.
June 25, 2005 Last Steps
Our agency has finally received all of our paperwork. We also got our official fingerprint appointment and went to be fingerprinted for the USCIS (formerly INS)..
September 3, 2005 USCIS Approval
We received our official approval from the USCIS (formerly INS) to adopt an orphan and bring her into the United States.
January 13, 2006-
February 7, 2006 -