One Week Deadline

We received our first packet of info from the agency last Thursday. I was hoping to have all the paperwork filled out and ready to send back by this Thursday. That's not going to happen, but we're very close. I'm so anxious to get to the part where we're actually doing the home study and putting together our dossier that I view this preliminary portion as more a frustrating obstacle than a satisfying step closer to our child. Think God might have a lesson to learn here? :)

Jeremy is closer to being finished with his personal data than I am and we still have several chapters of our training series to complete. That should be done this week. That only leaves our medical exams which are scheduled for early April. Not too bad. I'm not sure what the next step is after we send all this paperwork to the agency, but I think it will involve scheduling the home study and being sent another packet of info telling us what we need for the dossier and how to get it. It's only slightly less painful than actual childbirth.

Our deadline is still my birthday, which is mid-May. I hope to give myself the gift of DTE (dossier sent to "name of country") for my birthday this year. I'll also accept donations to our adoption fund (hint, hint) ;).

I've been stopped several times over the last week when out with my kids. People love to comment on how cute they are, or well-behaved. They often ask if I have any more children and I usually answer that I have a teenager as well (since she's usually not with me when I'm out and about). It's been very hard not to say that we are expecting. That's exactly how I feel - pregnant with an unknown due date. I can't wait to be waiting.