Monday, July 24, 2006
Adoption Update for July
There is not much to say in the way of the adoption right now. We are still in the waiting process. At least our paperwork has been moved to the matching room. This is a good sign.
Dave and I did have to update our homestudy. It is required that an update be submitted every year until the adoption goes through. At least it wasn't as detailed at our first one. Just another CORI check and doctor's exam. We also will probably have to have our fingerprints done again. This won't be as much fun. Anther set of forms, travel to Boston again for fingerprinting, and wait for our I171 form to come in the mail. Plus this cost money. I have to look it up, but i think we are talking around $600.
July Referrals should be posted this week. What we are all anxious to hear, in the China Adoption world, is that all of July 2005 will be included in this batch. There is a slim chance, but we musn't get our hopes up.
It looks like i may have to update my Referral ticker at the top. I think i need to push it out another few months. I am going to wait until this month's referrals have been posted.
This month has been very busy though. We had our annual Fourth of July party, we went on our summer vacation with my family to Ossipee Lake, NH. And we had the Girl's Party i mentioned below.
August will be the month for me to get my butt in gear and start shopping and setting up the nursery. I want to finish my registry, start looking at some of the big ticket items we need to buy and possibly start setting up Katy's room. This waiting is not good for my procratinating problem. I keep putting things off and before you know it, i will be scrambling around as I usually do.
Above are some pictures from our vacation this year. We stayed at a beautiful lake in New Hampshire. I got to spend some quality time with my niece and nephew, relax, shop, and read a book. You can't a
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Hi Brigit,
You were right I am using WHFC also and my LID was 10/28/05. I am also a Cancer. I just turned 38. This will be our first child together (I have two stepsons). I am now concerned as we haven't done a Homestudy update yet. I am surprised you haven't done Katy's room yet. We had Lilly's done months ago. It is kinda sad to look at since we have no idea when we will even get a referral. I sure hope we get them by October at least! I know that may be a dream at this point.
Hi there! Love the pics. We have to get our fingerprints done too...but in CT I don't think we need to update our Homestudy. I have to double check but thats what our SW told us.
Hope you are well. You up for a get together for the October group? I am trying to set one up.
Colleen~
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