Hopefully we will hear something this week about our adoption appointment - I just heard that a family who submitted their dossier one week before ours (in reality it was one American day before ours since they were only accepting American dossiers once a week) got an appointment for the last week in June. Hopefully ours will be near around there too. This family traveled to Ukraine to pick up their appointment letter IN PERSON! Wow, that's quite a trip for a piece of paper! But they got information, which is gold to the adoption community. They said that all the dossiers already submitted have been reviewed and registered and appointment dates set - they just needed the new director to sign them all, which he/she was doing as fast as possible. So it sounds like ours has been processed and a date assigned, but they just can't tell us yet. Maybe today -Tuesdays are the official days that facilitators can come and receive the appointment letters for their clients.
We still need to raise a bit of money - airfares for that time of year are alot higher than in spring, fall, or winter. Hopefully between my work adoption shower, savings, and the refunded deposit from the apartment we are moving out of, we can do it.
We are still packing for the move - thankfully a friend volunteered to help us this weekend, so that Andrew has some help lifting things (I can do it, but not as well as a guy could). We have a truck lined up for Sunday, and I'm going to transfer the utilities today. We will try to get 90% of everything moved this weekend - we don't have to be "out" of the current apartment until the end of the month, so we have sometime to move the little things and clean the place, so we aren't stressing too bad. I'm trying to sell some of our excess furniture on craigslist, but so far there is lots of interest, but no one commiting to buy.
Here are photos of our new place:
