Dossier news and possible moving

So the SDA never really "announced" their new dossier acceptance system, but thankfully someone found the notice buried on the Ministry of Justice's website - in Ukrainian only of course. So, between a group of us we translated most of it and it seemed reasonable.

Our facilitator was already working on going to Kyiv to submit our dossier under the new system, when she found out a friend of hers already had a "place" in line for this coming Monday. So we did a quick power of attorney to allow him to submit the dossier for our facilitator, had it notarized and apostilled and sent via DHL within 3 hours of getting the email from our facilitator! :) We have got this system down! I got notice that the documents arrived at our facilitator's home today. So please pray and hope that our dossier gets in the door without incident on Monday. The SDA then has 20 days to review the dossier and either accept or reject it....please also pray that they accept it and we receive a registration number and travel appointment date.

It is looking more and more like we will be traveling in May. Airline fares are almost double their normal price during the summer months...not good for those of us on a budget. But at least the weather in Ukraine will be nice. And since the region we are adopting the older sisters from is known to be a "fast" region, we hope to have everything done in less than 4 weeks. That would put us back home around my birthday and the oldest girl's birthday (hers is a few days after mine). We had hope to have then home in time to take them to the Renaissance festival here, but it closes down in early June.

This will also interfere with our hosting of the youngest girl - we had hoped to have her for the entire summer, but now we will be down to only 2 weeks in August due to the way the program dates run.

In other stressful news, we went to renew our lease yesterday only to find out they plan to make our building into condos sometime in the near future and are only going to allow tenants to renew for 3 month increments at a time. At this time they have no idea when they will actually be converting them into condos, but I'm praying that it is at least 6 months out from now - the last thing we or the girls need is to be packing up to move the same week we get home.

We had planned on moving into a house or townhome in the near future - but probably not until 2009 when the Emory University staff village opened up. They are going to be complete with that construction in 2009 and we were going to purchase one of their single family homes there - Emory employees get first choice and probably a lower price, then it opens up to the general public. So its not "campus housing" - we would own the house. Its obviousely very close to Emory, where Andrew works, and is very close to where I work. Its also a very good school district. We just had planned on staying at our loft until those opened to minimize the amount of moving we would need to do. I hate moving. At least we'd be able to afford a mover this time.

So we are looking at many options - transfering to another loft in one of the non-condo buildings, moving into an apartment closer to Emory, or renting a house near Emory.