Thursday, February 12, 2004
Winding Down
Well it finally feels like the paper chase is winding down. Today a friend, who is a notary, went with me (on a snowy day off from school!) to the doctor's office to watch our doctor sign off on our medical papers. I quickly drove to Kinko's and copied all of the paperwork we were required to turn in for this installment. Then I drove to our agency to drop off the papers. Meanwhile Steve was being interviewed upstairs for his "alone" part of the home study. Mine was a week ago. Our home visit will be Tuesday morning at 10 and we will be all finished with the home study. We are waiting for one document from out of state and a few more reference letters.
There will be some celebrating going on when we hear that the home study is mailed to the immigration service. Next step is fingerprinting and waiting for the I171 form from immigration. When that is finished, everything gets translated and sealed -- off to China. Our hope is that it will be in China by May. So far we are on schedule, but anything can happen.
I saw a teacher friend in Barnes and Noble this afternoon. My most vivid memory of her is from about 15 years ago when I was doing an interim in a room near hers. She was waiting to hear news of a domestic adoption. I happened to go in her room in the morning and say, "What does it feel like to know any moment you could find out you have a baby?" A short while later she was in my room with tears streaming down her face because she now knew! The agency had called. It was such fun to tell her about our plans to adopt with her two almost grown girls sitting at the table. Two girls...hmm.
There will be some celebrating going on when we hear that the home study is mailed to the immigration service. Next step is fingerprinting and waiting for the I171 form from immigration. When that is finished, everything gets translated and sealed -- off to China. Our hope is that it will be in China by May. So far we are on schedule, but anything can happen.
I saw a teacher friend in Barnes and Noble this afternoon. My most vivid memory of her is from about 15 years ago when I was doing an interim in a room near hers. She was waiting to hear news of a domestic adoption. I happened to go in her room in the morning and say, "What does it feel like to know any moment you could find out you have a baby?" A short while later she was in my room with tears streaming down her face because she now knew! The agency had called. It was such fun to tell her about our plans to adopt with her two almost grown girls sitting at the table. Two girls...hmm.
# posted by lorrainegriffith @ Thursday, February 12, 2004 
