Monday, March 12, 2012

Gotcha Day and Birthdays

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Wow - what a CRAZY day.  Wake up as a 42 year old in Addis, Ababa, Ethiopia - to a rooster and some dude singing at a local church at 5:30 a...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

GOT it

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Ok - got in via blogger itself - so hopefully this will work on other days. Exhausted now - but have dinner at 7 at the hotel - should be ...

We arrived - take 2

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Well accessing the internet from the Yeka Guest house is VERY difficult - the TV sometimes works  - but they actually have a good selection...
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Monday, March 05, 2012

wow - a few more days

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Wow - can NOT believe after all this blogging - we will have our son in our arms FOREVER next Monday!  And to top it off - its my birthday -...
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Sunday, February 26, 2012

TWO MORE WEEKS!

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Can I just scream OMG!  OMG!  OMG! over and over again!  We are leaving in less then 2 weeks.  WE have ONE More weekend to get the house rea...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Getting ready - lots to do

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Yep - SO much to do and very little time - but it seems like we are making progress.  We will be bringing our son home soon!  And just can...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Embassy appointment date - SET

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Well we finally have an appointment for the Visa on 3/13/12 - now we just have to hope we don't need more paper work before we go due to...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

CLEARED - USCIS Nairobi cleared us~

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Wow - can I just say that God has a good sense of humor?  He really does - we have said all along - God has a plan - the delays are on purpo...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

USCIS - we have arrived

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It only took 1 week exactly and we found out this morning that the USCIS in Nairobi, Kenya received our file!  So that's good.  Somewher...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

FRUSTRATING - sent to USCIS

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Well one of our nightmares came true today - we received the dreaded email from the USE that we are "not clearly approvable' and se...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Waiting - still

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Still no word from USE but they did request ONE piece of information to review our file.  So that was submitted the next day and now we wait...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

USE reqesting some tidbits of info

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anyone seeing me this morning trying to get out of the house ON TIME (my goal is to leave close to 6:30 am every day - I rarely get there) w...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

File under review (finally)

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Yes - at about 7:58 am - today we received an email from the USE stating they have our file and its under review.  That's about it - the...
Sunday, January 01, 2012

Happy 2012 - gonna be the year of Curtis Samuel Backus

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Finally a NEW YEAR - its gotta be a good one!  I anticipate LOTS of good things on the horizon  - changes in our life and a new son!  Just c...
Friday, December 30, 2011

No word from USE yet

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So our paper work was submitted to the USE last Thursday - we all were expecting an email Wednesday or Thursday saying they received our fil...