Here we go again!
January 29, 2008
Last Tuesday I received an email from our facilitator in Ukraine. He was wondering if I thought it was possible to get all of our documents ready in under two weeks. His reason was this: The Ukrainian government just changed the way they accept dossiers. For those of you who are unfamiliar with international adoptions this happens frequently. Last fall they decided that they would only accept a certain number of dossiers from each foreign country. The US was at the top of the list with approximately 475 dossiers to be accepted in 2008. But we weren't worried the number was only slightly down from 2007 and since we are adopting the siblings of a child we previously adopted we weren't included in the quota. Now the new rule says that there will be approximately. 1475 dossiers total accepted from all foreign countries. I don't know if this is a decrease or not, I haven't been able to find out. We still weren't worried, since we are still trying to adopt Matthew's siblings, we should be excluded from the quota. Well now we aren't sure, so we are trying to assemble our dossier to get it submitted for a 2008 slot, just to make sure. As of last week 1250 of the slots were already filled. I have almost all of our documents ready. I am still waiting on our marriage license from Nevada, but almost everything else should be ready to sent to Pierre for Apostille by tomorrow (hopefully). Then to Ukraine by Fed-Ex by the end of the week--if we get the marriage license. So send off lots of prayers for us to get all of the documents so we get a 2008 slot. We have lots of faith in our facilitator--a different one from the one we used with Matthew.
Last week I ran around like crazy getting these documents, then Matthew got sick again. He has hardly ever been sick since we adopted him. Now he has had a reoccurring sinus infection since before Christmas. And being the generous child that he is, He shared all of them with me. He was sick Thursday on and then Saturday I got it too. Our teeth hurt because our sinuses were infected again. So back to the doctor again (which was ok since I had a form for her to sign too). This time I had a sinus infection and Matthew has one too with his first ever ear infection. We watched Scooby-Doo for most of the day. We drank lots of Sprite-which Matthew thinks is a big treat because he isn't usually allowed to drink much pop. Did you know that in one afternoon you can watch episodes of Scooby-Doo from 1970 all the way up to 2008? I didn't even notice much of a difference-except for in the 1970 episode only two characters move at a time.
Matthew can now spell cat, mom, pop, and tea-which we've been drinking lots of decaffeinated hot tea to help clear our heads.
Jeff and I would like to thank the generous people who have sent us a donation, we really appreciate it. There have only been a few-but every penny counts. Thank you and God Bless!