No Ordinary Family

Why does everything take so long? I would just like to know. We got word today that our dossier will be ready to pick up from the embassy on Thursday. I assume that means that our agency will get it on Friday and then we will be DTC (documents to country) sometime next week. I know that these things take time but time just seems to be slipping away. I am hoping that we get approval from Burundi soon after DTC but to be quite honest I think we will see delays here and unfortunately we will not be able to get any information about those delays. Our June travel plans seem like more if a dream, I think we will be traveling in July but that is just my opinion. I just hope that it is not longer than that. In the mean time we have no new info on BB and I don’t think we are going to get any. I would love to see more pictures or just find out how much he weighs or how tall he is. Does he have any teeth or is he walking yet? What is his schedule like? Anything would be nice but that is not alway...

Well, a burst of engery came after a long winter slumber on the mountian of paperwork, I believe that we have reached the summit! And boy is it a beautiful view! This afternoon I got our last document off to AAO. They are going to be getting all of the authentications done for us this time around. Once those are finished, off to Burundi with the dossier! I can not believe that we might actually be this close. It is truely amazing to me that I might actually get to join the mommy club. I have been looking in the window for some time now and truely think that the door is opening slightly. I am feeling better today I still don't have my voice back completely and I am coughing a bit but I finally have some energy!

This is how many days that were referred by the CCAA for this month. They have averaged this many days a month since our log in date. This is how many more years we will have to wait for our daughter if it continues to move at the same rate. Of course we hope for a speed up and that is what is keeping us going. I guess if they start processing whole months at a time we are only 13 months away but I don't really see that kind of speed up happening that quickly. I really can't imagine it taking that long so I continue to hope that each month the wait shortens and we are closer to our daughter. As for our climb up the paperwork mountain to Burundi. We seem to be facing a cliff wall with no tools to climb it right now. We sent our guide to REI for the proper equipment and apparently the nearest one is in Kenya and he must have taken a tortoise, so we wait not so patiently for the next step. We hope to get some more information in January. It means facing another Christmas not ...