the new year is coming and i can not wait. it has to be better than this last one. it's been great to have the kids home this week. i will miss them when they go back to school the first week of jan. they need the structure, though and i think they are more ready than i am. :)
our documents are at the lockbox and we are in the month long wait now. my courier is going to retrieve our dossier from the dept of state, who can't seem to get their shit together and authenticate in a timely fashion. those docs will be at the chinese embassy by tomorrow afternoon and will be back in our hands early next week. deep sigh of relief. :)
still a bit to go before we send off the whole thing to ccai for critical review, but we are really getting close, now. i will be glad to have this part over. building a dossier is never fun or uncomplicated. waiting to get the homestudy back from VA Dept of Commonwealth. once that is back, take it and jim's birth certificate and send them to dept of state (through the courier, this time. much quicker) and on to chinese embassy for those afterward. take all 12 docs and send them on to our agency, pay the second agency fee and then wait for our i-797c to come sometime in february. take that (when it finally arrives) and notarize, certify, authenticate, authenticate and off to agency and FINALLY they will send our dossier off to china. we are hoping that will be the end of feb and not later... but, who knows! the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly when there's a profit to be made! anyway... we'll get there, eventually.
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