Found out who our social worker was.

Our SW called my dh at work today. She introduced herself to him and told him that it would be about a 12 to 15 month wait right now. She said that there is no wait for a boy, but we don't need to spend $40,000 and travel half way around the world to get a boy ( we have 5 already ), so we will continue to wait for a girl.

It's officially official!!!

Hi Ron and Tracy,
I just wanted to let you know that I received and reviewed your apostilled dossiers this morning. Everything looked great! Congratulations, you are officially on the child referral list now! A social worker from my office will call you within the next 2 business days and introduce herself to you and answer any questions or concerns you may have. Please remember to complete the educational requirements as soon as possible (Frank Online School and Eyes Wide Open). It has been a pleasure working with you. I hope you have a wonderful day!

Suzanne Hopkins
Dossier Coordinator
Business Manager/Executive Assistant

Both dossiers have been Apostilled!!!!

I overnighted the dossiers to my adoption agency and i'm thrilled to be DONE with all the paperwork ( for now anyways lol ) . Here is a photo of my apostilled dossiers ( 118 items were apostilled ).

Oh yeah!

Here's a video too.

Nicholas' first day of school!

Where did the time go? I can't believe that he's in school already. He LOVED it!

Agency recieved the dossier

and everything looks GREAT! They sent it back and I should be getting it tomorrow. I will be getting both dossiers apostilled on Tuesday and then the official wait begins. I'm so excited to be moving on to the next step of the adoption process. Although I didn't drag my feet, the paperwork took almost 4 months to complete. My 5 year old starts Kindergarten tomorrow, so I will post a little update about his first day of school ( with pictures ) tomorrow. Now that family is gone, we are back from a month long vacation, and paperwork for the adoption is done ( for now anyways ) , I will be writting in my blog more often.

Two complete Dossier's!!!!!

WOOHOO!!!!!! I just sent a hard copy of my dossier to the adoption agency for review. They should be getting it tomorrow morning. I'm hoping and praying that it meets approval and that I can get everything appostilled next week. THEN we will be on the waiting list. The dossier preparation was a HUGE PITA. I'm not looking forward to having to do this again when everything expires.

Got it straightened out

We got the doctors to give us copies of their medical licenses ( with the number blacked out ). What a HUGE load taken off my shoulders!

I'm SO upset right now!

I just went to pick up all of our medical forms that needed to be filled out and notarized for the dossier, and the nurse ( rudely) tells me that the doctor WILL NOT give a copy of his medical license ( required to adopt in Russia ). I was practically in tears when I called my adoption agency about this. The dossier cordinator spoke with the nurse herself and told her that they could black out the actual license number. The nurse said that she would run it by the doctor, but she didn't sound very hopeful. WTF do I do???? This could seriously slow things down for us BIG TIME. We have 7 people in our family. Not only would we have to try and find another doctor who will do this, but we will have to pay a ton more money for physicals AND we would most likely have to wait a couple of months JUST to get in. I'm VERY upset right now!

Dossier almost complete!

Well, our Dossier is almost complete WOOHOO. The only two things that we are waiting on are for police clearance ( we were fingerprinted yesterday ) and we are trying to find a CPA to sign a certificate of asset form. I tried calling a couple of local CPA's yesterday but didn't have any luck. My husband is going to talk with the CPA at his work today. I can't believe that it has taken 4 months just to prepare the dossier AND I wasn't even dragging my feet on anything.