Well, while we were in Idaho, I received a call from the agency. They told me by the time we got home, there would be an envelope with a packet of info for us. Needless to say, I was anxious to get the mail when we got home unfortunatley, we had to wait a day since it had been put on hold and Steve had to pick it up at the post office. WOW! I have been reading in the adoption handbook that there was a lot of paperwork but wholy cow! We are only home for 2.5 days and they are jammed packed. We have been running around trying to get the motorhome ready for the next big trip which is going to last 5 weeks. We have also been trying to get some of the adoption stuff done as well which makes for two very tired parents to be at the end of the day. Guess we'll just call this training!
As of right now, we have filled out the I-600A form which goes to the state of california. We had to fill out this form and provide birth certificates, marriage certificate, divorce documents and $685 for them to look at this and also take our fingerprints. Once they get our homestudy from the agency, then they will hopefully approve us and send us what is called the I-171H form which let's us know that we are good to go to adopt in Russia. From there we have to work on getting our Dossier together. I can't even look that far seeing as we have a ton of paperwork to gather together for our homestudy and yes that required another set of fingerprints and MORE money. I think I will have to find this money tree that my parents always talked about! At least I know we are working towards something instead of just wondering what might be. I know that after all of this, we will be parents. I actually bought us 2 backpacks that are perfect for our flight home with our TWO new babies! I just had to buy something. Pregnant women get to buy cute stuff for their baby to be, I buy backpacks that will double as diaper bags to fly 17 hours home on a plane. I already feel sorry for the people who have to sit near us!
Well, I hope everyone is having a great summer. I am off to bed to catch some sleep so I can get up tomorrow and run around like a chicken with my head cut off again. And this is supposed to be my time off from work. Good thing! I need to go on vacation so I can go back to taking naps while Steve drives us down the road to our next destination. I'll enjoy it while I can. I'm hoping our next big motorhome trip will have 2 new babies to ride along and that will be a whole new adventure in itself!
Hugs to all!
