No go on the townhouse, and no news about appointment

So, day 20 has come and gone, and no news about our dossier. A friend who submitted their dossier around the same time got unofficial news that they will have a June 18th appointment, so that is promising. Our dossier is probably processed and an appointment scheduled, the SDA just can't make any official statements until a new director is appointed and can sign off on the approvals and appointments. The new director is supposed to be appointed on Monday, April 16th, so we hope to hear something shortly after that.

So it looks like we will be in Ukraine from late June through July. Airfares are extremely high that time of year, so that will impact our budget.

The townhouses both fell through, so we are going with plan B and moving into Post Braircliff apartments. We reserved a nice 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment there, all hard wood floors, on the first floor (so no stairs to lift furniture up!) and it is right next to the walking gate to Whole Foods grocery market. Its a nice gated community, nicely landscaped, and has two pools that the girls will enjoy. We will take photos of the empty apartment and community this weekend and post them here. We are scheduled to move in next weekend, so we are stressed! I hate packing and moving, but we have become experts at it! I don't think we've stayed in one home for more than 2 years at a time! The Post apartment is also temporary until the Emory Faculty housing is completed in early 2009. Then we will stay put for a long time hopefully :)

This weekend we are going to MedShare to help finish up the Neurology sorting and boxing, and to pick up some boxes of supplies for Dr. Andrey and Life2Orphans. Then Sunday we have the Ukrainian adoptive family picnic at Stone Mountain park. It will be nice to see the Nolte kids again (and their parents too!) and meet the family who recently got home with adorable toddler twins. So, I will have tons of photos to post of that too.

The hosting plans for SnowWhite are coming along, as is her registration for adoption. She and her friends will be in the US from June 25 through August 25. Since we will be in Ukraine for half that time, she will stay with her friends' host families in New York until we get back. I know Susan, Peggy, and Joanne will take good care of my baby and they will reinforce that we are her Mama and Papa and we love her. At least she will be out of that filthy orphanage for the summer. When we get back, we will arrange to pick her up for the remainder of the summer. Good grief, I will have 3 Ukie girls running around for a month! LOL