Is this the week????

My agency is claiming they had 2 dossiers approved by the DC Embassy last week. Apparently the processing time for these dossiers was only two weeks. Pretty encouraging news. If we are lucky our dossier will be submitted this week and with a little more luck we might be on our way (or at least our paperwork will be on its way) to Kazakhstan. We have been told all along that the delay is limited to the Kaz Embassy processing and that the rest of the adoption process is business as usual. If this is in fact correct than we might be looking at an LOI in the late fall. It does seem that we will not complete an adoption in 2008 but maybe early 2009 will be our time.

PS-As is my nature, I had a little retail therapy yesterday. I have a growing collection of flowered and frilly party dresses. They are so beautiful but even I am started to get concerned at the number of impractical wardrobe purchases I am making. It is not as if I am a newbie here, I have three mud lovin' boys. I do recognize that a snow white eyelet sundress, accented with a pink satin ribbon, a silk top coat, matching hat, sunglasses and monagramed diaper cover is not exactly the smartest choice for a one year old. But heaven help me I just can't lay off the dresses!

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now back to our show...

I haven't posted in a bit for a bunch of reasons. First there has been absolutely no movement on the adoption front. We originally completed our dossier on feb 2. Since then we have had to make some extra copies, redo a couple of documents but nothing too bad. our dossier is translated and has been reviewed for a second time by a indepedent consultant hired by our agency. We have been told everything is in order and that our dossier will be submitted to the Kaz Embassy in DC. Almost two weeks ago we were told our dossier would be submitted sometime "in the next to weeks". This is a change from past practice when dossiers were submitted immediately. We though we would be out of the Embassy and to Kaz by now and instaed we haven't even started yet.

Although our case worker said she did not think our documents would expire I am not very optimistic about that. Medical exams are not supposed to be more than 90 days old and I think ours were completed in january. All of our other documents are at least 70 days old. I'm not sure if I will be upset at the thought of redoing the documents or the fact that our case worker was wrong. I hope she is not.

The other reason I haven't posted is I have been busy training for the Komen 3Day Walk. The sun has finally come back to northeast Ohio and after working all day in an office (the kind where the windows don't open), I just can't stand the idea of staying in the house (which is where my computer is). I have been walking and walking and running a little bit two. I been walking between about 4-8 miles each night and then trying to also do my regular workouts. Today I was really excited because I've had a bunch of sponsorship dollars come in. I really am lucky to know so many generous people willing to help a good cause! You can check out my progress on my other blog-the link is at the top right corner of this page.

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TODAY IS OUR SEVEN MONTH CHINA LIDVERSARY!!! So many more months to go but oh so worth the wait.

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
- A Chinese Proverb

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Dossier Submission Round 3

Last week our agency informed us that we need to make some changes to our dossier. They were pretty minor but one was a change to the homestudy which was not immediately within our control. Today we finally had all we needed and so we sent via federal express our dossier for the third time to AA.

My understanding is the dossier has already been translated and that the changes were requested after an attorney newly hired by AA reviewed our documents. I am not sure when we will finally have our dossier sent to the Embassy but hopefully it will be very soon. I am worried that with all the delays our documents may be too old before we even get them to the Embassy!

Fingers crossed-hopefully three is the charm.


PS Check out my link for the 3 Day Breast Cancer Walk (top right corner). I am signed up to walk 60 miles in three days to raise money for breast cancer research. Please consider making a donation if you can. Thanks!!

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