Well, our dossier documents are now out of our hands and on their way to Washington DC for authentication at the US State Dept and Ethiopian Embassy. I mailed everything out this morning. It's a little nerve-wrecking putting all those
documents in an envelope. I can't help thinking how much it would absolutely suck if they were lost in the mail. Of course there is some consolation knowing that we've done this once before and everything worked out just fine. Actually, I have to admit that it was pretty easy getting all this in order because we had done it before. In all, we had 21 documents that we collected, had notarized, and then had authenticated. Check out the picture...pretty impressive. I wish we would have taken a picture like this the first time around. This was my second chance so I couldn't pass it up.
Hopefully, at this time next week the completed dossier will be back in our agency's possession and will soon be off to Ethiopia! Then the wait begins. It's strange how it seems like everything is moving so fast this time around but in reality the process is slower. It must be because Mikias is distracting us from obsessing over this adoption.
This afternoon the three of us headed to the Earth Day Expo at Oakland University. It was pretty cool. Joanna and I have been there the past few years and really enjoy it. Mikias' favorite part was definitely the African dancers that performed. He was totally entranced for about 20 minutes.
7 comments:
I love the pictures of all the documents, pretty impressive pile of papers. That's so very exciting that in just a couple of weeks, you will be officially waiting!
/Hi Mckinney's
Got caught up on all the blogs I had missed. Dad and I read them all this morning. Well so begins the journey to number 2. I will begin my prayers anew that all will progress smoothly. Can't believe we will be going to Africa with you this time.
Love, Mom and Dad or Grandma and Papa
Congrats on getting the paperwork sent off!
Congrats on your second journey. We too are still waiting. No offense, but I hope that our baby comes first :)
Your blog was one of the first we discovered from our agency. We watched you bring Mikias home as we were just starting our journey. So exciting to see you starting the process again as we hope to do the same one day. I’m looking forward to following along again. Congrats on getting your dossier out the door—how good does that feel!
Congrats on getting that sent off! What a good feeling to know that you have done what needs to be done. Hoping this next part of the journey goes well for you! (And quickly!)
That is great that you remembered to get pictures this time. We did not do it the first time, either. Maybe the time around! :)
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