OFFICIALLY ON THE WAITING LIST!

Immigration Approval



Well, after checking the mail promptly every day (which is a new thing for me b/c I usually just check it once a week) we finally got something from Homeland Security! It was addressed to my husband so I just assumed that this was his approval and that mine would come on a different day. So since then I have been at the mailbox everyday waiting for mine. Today I stalked the mailman as he was placing everyone's mail in their boxes and grabbed mine as soon as he was done.....and NOTHING! I was pretty furious. So I emailed our agency and asked if it was normal for our approvals to arrive at different times. She explained that there would only be one approval with both of our names on it. Sure enough...it was my approval too! Shows you how much I still don't know about this crazy process! I had to laugh a lot about this.

So what does it mean?

This means that we are officially approved by the federal government to be the adoptive parents of a child from a different country which means we can go on our angency's waiting list to be matched with a little one. The wait time just got moved from 6 months to 12 but that just gives us enough time to read all the books we need to read, learn some Luganda, meet more couples who have adopted or have a connection with Uganda, do some more fundraising, make some more tutus and maybe sell our house! That is a lot of things to do in a years time. At least it is for me.

It finally feels real!

So after all most a year of going through all the interviews, paperwork and fundraisers it finally feelsl like we are expecting our third child! This is a very exciting day for me. I know it will be a long while before we actually get to meet our new addition but it still makes me extremely happy and grateful that we made it this far! I was very nervous starting this process because I have never been great at paperwork. But husband kept encouraging me and reminding me of all the things I have accopmplished just because I wanted to. This may not seem like a big deal to some going through this process but it sure is a big deal to me!