Progress!

Isaac went be fingerprinted at Immigration last Monday and then took me to Immigration Tuesday morning for my fingerprinting. We have been waiting for these appointments since February, so it was a huge relief to mark this step off of our list.

Can you tell that I was happy to have this step behind me? We are now waiting on our homestudy report to be finalized which we expect to happen this week. Once this happens, we should have the missing pieces turned into the adoption agency and then will be "Gladney approved." At this point, our dossier (documents sent to Ethiopia) will be complete and ready for authentication.

This picture is of all of the dossier documents I sent in on Friday for our dossier assistant to start organizing and getting ready for authentication. The lady at FedEx knows our "story" and asked me if it was a relief to be sending in all this paperwork. I told her that, yes, it was, but looking back it wasn't that bad. The mountain of paperwork was overwhelming at first, but when you break it down and work together to get it all done, it is completely manageable. I would encourage anyone and everyone who has ever considered adoption to DO IT and not let the paperwork stand in the way-it is totally worth it!

My hope is to be on the official waiting list by Mother's Day and then the countdown will really begin.