Well it's been a crazy week, I tried to put our mini-Dossier and our INS papers together in a day so I ended up forgetting to mail some of the documents. I am so disorganized this time around, I ended up driving to Dana's house 3 times to drop documents off, LOL. I wanted her to have everything to send our I600A in on Monday, January 30th and to get our Dossier Apostilled. I think she sent our Dossier over-seas on Friday, February 3rd if not I hope it goes out on Monday the 6th.

It was an interesting week. I got an email from a social worker (Melodie) in Nevada about a 2 yr old little boy that I inquired about back in September "05" it seems as if they are going to review more people to adopt him. I was told back then that they had stopped taking home-studies for him because of the overwhelming response. His name is Cory and he is just adorable. It is torture not knowing how many other families they are contacting about this little guy, how they will narrow it down and when they will pick a couple for him. I hope they do it fast, he is free for adoption and needs to get with his forever family, he will be 3 in November. I do not like the way this has made me feel, I cannot stop thinking about this boy and it has caused some very long days and nights. I hate that we are ready and he is ready and we can't just go get him, this little man deserves a Mommy and Daddy. I do not like that we have this glimmer of hope and he may not be placed with us. Dana faxed our home-study to Melodie on Feb. 2nd and she told Melodie she thought Jeff and I would be a great match for Cory. I wonder how many others said the same thing about their clients.

Any ways, I'll post again next week. Hopefully we will get a finger-print date soon and we will learn more about Cory. I have been told our INS is moving very slow, it has changed since last time we filed our I-600A, they transferred the office to Detroit, they have 3 people working on orphan petitions and they are moving 10 times slower than they where with just 1 person. It took us 6 weeks to get our approval to adopt last time, we'll see about this time.

Have a great week! I hope I have good news to post soon.