Day 7 of 20

14 more business days until we will know if our dossier was approved or not - could be earlier or later by a few days though. Day 20 is a holiday too - Easter.

It also looks like the late May travel appointments are being eaten up....there are many Ukrainian holidays in May, but we are hopeful that we will still get in for a mid to late May appointment. Maybe this new director (the most recent one resigned again)will take into account known older kids when scheduling appointments. The one who just resigned did not take this fact into account, which is silly IMO since there aren't many babies off the registry right now due to the lack of registrations that were being processed last year. Let those of us adopting kids over age 10 go now!

Also there is that new rumored law that is being voted on in the Ukrainian parliment soon that will remove the requirement for children to stay on the national registry for 12 months before being available to foriegn parents. This would be HUGE for us since SnowWhite is still not registered, and we were very depressed that we'd all have to wait an additional 12 months once she was finally registered. Its not like any Ukrainian families want to adopt an "adult" kid as they call them there so the 12 month "hold" would be pointless.

My parents are coming to town this weekend so I'm trying to clean up the house and pack for the move and worry about our adoption and hosting plans! Of course my immune system is weak and now with pollen counts going through the roof I'm pretty sick. I sound like a frog and I can't breathe or swallow very well :( But I go through this every year and have figured out the best combination of drugs to combat these pollen seasons. Claritin, ibuprofin, nose spray, hot tea, vicks vapo rub, eucalyptus bath salts, cough drops and any other REAL decongestant I can find LOL Not that crap they have on the shelves now - the stuff they have to hide behind the counter because of the meth heads. Pseuophedrine Chloride - that's the good stuff. Anyways...as you can tell I'm loopy from the above combo of allergy meds. :)


Hopefully we will be able to work something out for that townhouse today - that place is a true blessing. We were just about to give up on looking for a "house" and just move into another apartment, but then I see this place posted on craig's list. One miracle down....