Making Progress!

Our home study is finished!  So as soon as we receive those all-important notarized copies from our homestudy agency in a few days, we can send everything (the registration dossier and the homestudy) off to the state to be legalized, or "apostilled."  It takes 3-5 business days to do this, then when we recieve that big stack of certificates, we will send it all to our placing agency and they will forward them on to Anna's country to be translated and entered into the system. That should take a few weeks.  Then we should receive our first travel date which will be a couple weeks later.  In the meantime, we'll file our petition to adopt a foreign orphan, or "I-600A" with the US Government, and we will continue to work on the court dossier which we'll need to have done before we travel.  It's a busy summer!  I feel like I have two full-time jobs right now.  One of managing a household that includes 5 children and one of compiling a dossier.  This, too shall pass!  It will all be worth it.