Per tracking# clearances are en route

They will arrive Monday and our agency should have all our paperwork by Tues morning. "If" everything is acceptable, this part of the process should be finished and things will be out of our hands for the time being. Hopefully it won't take too long for the paperwork to get apostilled, sent off to Russia, translated, and in the court's hands. I'll still be hoping for a late October, early November court date.....we'll see.

We're just lounging around today, enjoying a nice family day. Perhaps I'll get Steve to hang up the baby's chandelier.

Still no clearances

The FBI clearances that I thought were handled and sent out yesterday still have not arrived......and, according to the tracking number, Fed Ex hasn't even received the package yet. So, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that someone didn't follow thru on what they told me, but I'm so disappointed. I just really had in my mind that our agency would be receiving our paper package by the end of the week, and now its not even looking good for Monday......sigh. Why can't others realize that a sweet little 13 month old is at the other end of this process? All these delays are adding up to weeks. Today marked 1 month home. I cannot believe we're not further along. I promise I feel I have been doing EVERYTHING I can to speed things up and its just not working. Hopefully I'll get a hold of the FBI tomorrow and the clearances will be on their way to us tomorrow.

The painting also got put on hold until next week so I'll also have to let you all know later how the Pink Lemonade turned out.

On a positive note, Dylan gets his first school award tomorrow!! He is Champion of the Week so I get to go to the little assembly and be the proud momma and watch him receive his award.

Hopefully another problem averted

The phone was ringing at 6 am this morning, an Unknown Number, so we let the machine pick it up. It was the FBI so I quickly fumble around trying to answer it quickly. The man told me I had only sent enough money for one request for each of us, not two.....immediate panic sets it as we had needed to get a money order for the FBI and I'm running thru my head just how long its going to take now to get them $36 more dollars and have them return the clearances to me. Thankfully, the nice man immediately faxed me a credit card form which I filled out right away and faxed back and he said all 4 clearances would still make it in today Fed Ex. Whew! Guess I have anough sense to do 2 fingerprint cards each, just not enough to send 2 payments for each of us. So, now we wait and see if they come tomorrow still. Fingers crossed!

So we finally get the psych license verification.....

and its dated Noverber 17, 2007....!?! I'm glad I saw this right away and I emailed the lady at the Board of Psychology who did finally answer me back about the letters, and thankfully she replyed right away, saying that she would get new letters out TODAY and overnight them at their expense as it was their mistake.....OK, so its disappointing that they were wrong, but I'm so grateful someone understood how important this all is and acted quickly to fix the problem for us. Well, I'm "hoping" its fixed and we receive the revised letters tomorrow. I also got a response to an email regarding our FBI clearances and they said they were finished as of today, but probably wouldn't make today's Fed Ex so they'll go out overnight tomorrow and I should receive those on Thurs, meaning I can get our completed dossier #2 to our agency by Friday morning.

After that, I can really concentrate on getting things together for our little girl. Tomorrow is painting day! Her room, along with Madison's room and the bathroom will get painted. Can't wait to see how the Pink Lemonade looks.

We had a great weekend at our river place. We went with my mom, and our friends Troy & Kara. I just love being out on our boat. I couldn't help but wonder how the little miss will enjoy the river...? Will she be terrified of the boat? Hopefully not and it will lull her to sleep, just as it did to her brother. I'll be sure to get her a cute life jacket, and I know she'll like playing on the beach, collecting shells with me, building sand castles together, seeing the crawfish her brother and sister catch, watching the trains go by.......I can't wait!

Me & My Mom

We're loving kindergarden

As I seem to be stuck, still needing the same two pieces of paper that I can't seem to get, I thought I'd share some pictures. Dylan is truly loving kindergarden, loves his teacher, is loving learning, and is just very excited every morning to go to school. Now, I know its only been 8 days.....but I'm so happy and proud! I helped out first time today in his classroom. Boy, hats off to his teacher! She keeps that classroom of 32 kindergardeners in check and is constantly doing fun things....LOTS of songs, books, activities, etc etc....how she engages all those kids at one time just amazes me. I know I couldn't do it! He was the first in his class to get to be KING which was exciting (just involves getting his name picked out of a tub, but still fun).

And now, off to Subway and Baskin Robbins for Dine Out night......to help raise $$$ for his school. Just might have to go for same of my favorite ice cream....Peanut Butter & Chocolate.

Now could someone PLEASE nudge the psych board to get me that verification already?? Missing the little miss as we hit 3 weeks home and she turned 13 months.