A Few Things~

We are not happy to report that the summer plans are looking a bit bleak right now. For varying reasons that I am not really sure of, the hosting group that the girls should be coming with is having trouble getting visas - actually with getting a visa appointment with the American Embassy in Kiev. It seems very possible that the trip will either be greatly shortened or cancelled. Originally the plan was for them to arrive this coming weekend! That date was changed to June 10th and now we are being told that it should be later June. While we are sad for every day that are not able to be here this summer, we are still cautiously optimistic that we will have at least eight weeks or so with them.

To update on the adoption process, we are just about done with the dossier - we were holding off of finalizing a few things because we didn't want things to expire. We have also had to redo a few documents already. The only thing we are still waiting on is that darn 171H form!!! About a month ago we recieved a letter from CIS saying that we were missing a few things in our homestudy. It has been updated and sent off, so hopefully we will get the 171H very soon. We are hoping that the homestudy is sufficient this time - we can't imagine why it wouldn't be. Our facilitator is pretty sure that our names will be posted to submit in August based on our number and what numbers are listed for June and July submissions. So if that works out to submit in August then we could be traveling to adopt these girls by maybe mid-November. This is all a huge guess on my part with tons of things that could change, but I am such a planner I just can't help myself! Okay so that is all I've got for now!

One other thing - we should get to talk to the girls tomorrow morning (afternoon for them).