Well good news - Craig picked up the Home Study reports yesterday and we were able to get the USCIS paperwork into the mail today! I just decided to pay to get it there by 10:30 am on Wednesday - it was less than $10 more than having it there by Thursday. so its in. Now we just have to pray that the process moves fast. We need to get the rest of our paperwork done so that we can have it all ready, notarized, etc.
Exciting - just need to get it all moving! At least that was a big step! Fee's for the USCIS (United States Custom and Immigration Services) were increasing a lot in just 2 weeks! Anyhow - they will do "biometrics" on Craig and I - fancy way to say fingerprinting and then we'll await Visa's for us and applied to get a Visa for a child from ET (Ethiopia from posts here on out)when we adopt one!
Exciting - its a big step - making it more and more real.
Next big thing - besides all the paperwork - applications for loans and grants to help finance this. Please keep us in your prayers that it all works out - it would stink to get all the way to the end and can't pay - but Craig and I have faith it will just work out. The funny thing is - what we calculate as apprxoimately what we have left is about what the tax credit is - so we'll get it all back and pay it off pretty quickly - so we'll see.
I'll keep everyone posted - once things slow down I'll start trying to post info on the kids and the country - do some research - its fun.
Oh and Nate tried the left over ET food we had over the weekend. Ha - didn't go over very well - but he's also very animated around us - so it was a big show of trying to spit it all out and not liking it - pretty entertaining. I think if it were fresh he'd have enjoyed it more - but he was just determined he was't going to like it. I told him his brother/sister isn't going to like our food immediately JUST because they live here - and we'll have to eat this more often then not just to help them adjust and becuase we will all have Ethiopia as part of our culture now.
Enjoy the day everyone.
Gail
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