Done with Dossier

Well, we sent off our dossier to our agency last Friday!  It only took us about a week to complete all of the paperwork.  We collected all of the documents and got them notarized.  We waited for a phone appointment to complete our last document, and now that it has arrived, our dossier is complete.

So what's next?  All of the documents will be checked over again our our agency.  Then the dossier will be sent to get authenticated, and then it will be translated into French (the official language in Congo).  We will "officially" be waiting after that.  Our agency's Congo program isn't too big, so hopefully we won't be waiting too long.

And now we wait again!

Beautiful Day!

This week, we had one of those days where we couldn't have planned it better.  Drew took the day off work because we had to finish the last document on our dossier list (yay!) and then we had to rest of the day to enjoy.

We had a picnic at the park and Judah got to watch a tractor digging up some dirt.

Then it was nap time and I went to go visit a fair trade store with a friend.  When I got back home, we got ready to go to the zoo.  First stop - the Africa exhibit...

We came home and grilled some chicken to put in a Mexican chicken casserole!  Yum!

And just to note, we sent in our request to officially change countries with CIS a few days ago.  On our way to the post office!

Mother's Day 2013

I had another great Mother's Day this year.  We were busy with both sides of the family again.  Here are some pictures of the day...

As always, I thought a lot about our little one to come.  It's a hard thing to miss a child who you've never met or seen their face.  Mother's Day also comes to mind the birth mother who, for reasons unknown to us, will not be able to parent their baby.  It's a good reminder that adoption comes with a lot of sadness, but we look forward to the day we can love on them!