Yes, it's a picture of a kitty... our Francesca. I didn't have time to snap something that would be appropriate to the post and I had this image just languishing in a folder! Little Miss thing here was lounging on the radiator cover and giving me the evil kitty eye.. so I snapped a couple of shots of the cuff.
So here is the latest.... our home study update and all the necessary associated paperwork has been brought together, stamped, stapled, certified and coming to think of it we should have taken it to be blessed! Anyway, it has been signed, packaged up and sent off to the land of Immigration.
So now we wait for them to give us the thumbs up... and cash the huge check we gave them to review what has already been reviewed and approved by half the known universe!
From here on out it's trying to plan for a trip that will happen sometime soon... but we don't really know when. Nothing like knowing you will be leaving your country, traveling to and staying in China for approximately 14 days and having no idea when that will actually happen!!!!
We have a ton to do... finances, work on the house, trying to learn some Mandarin... our heads our still spinning. At the moment, and I'll stick to the simple stuff, we are planning her room... right now we're on the gutting and starting fresh stage! Getting out the furniture, ripping up the old carpeting... It looks like we may refinish the hardwood floors in her room and as for the theme, well, it's still developing!
In the meantime we have been moved along at the agency.. now we are in the hands of the travel team... it's kinda exciting, and scary!
The emails are urgent sounding and we find it hard to make sense of them because they have the tone that our leaving is just around the corner
and while I suppose that's true, it's very difficult to make sense of travel planning when our paperwork has really just reached the hands of our immigration department and they could have it for up to 90 days....
well, that's all for this post... more soon! I think...
It's May 5th, and if everything has gone as you'd been told, you should have your little Sophia in your arms right now! I hope that there have not been too many unforeseen obstacles. Good luck with the rest of your travels. Come home safely!
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