Spring Break!

My spring break officially starts Monday. No big plans here. I would like to do major cleaning throughout the house. I did the boys' closets and dressers this weekend. So that is a start. Why does the kitchen always look like a dumping ground?

Fingerprint Appointment!!

Well the Central Registry has not come back yet, but I did get a little letter from Homeland Security. Homeland Security! Why am I so excited?? We have our fingerprint appointment in Detroit the middle of April. Baby steps baby steps!! Please don't ask how much longer, I simply do not know. I am just happy to be progressing.

Central Registry

Here's to hoping that the central registry comes back this week. (March 23 is week 4 and March 30 is week 5) I was told it takes 4-5 weeks to come back. So I will keep my fingers crossed...

Acknowledgement

March 3 I frantically FedExed my homestudy update (still waiting on the central registry to be done--should be at the end of March) to Texas for immigration. Today I got a letter acknowledging that they got the info and to verify that my name and address were correct. Not big news to anyone but me.

I roughly did a timeline on how much longer and really it is just a guess. I hope to be able to travel in June or the latest July. It is all out of my hands. I think an updated picture of Mia would help ease the wait. (I don't have one, or I would share it.)

My fellas

I snapped this picture the other day of the boys playing. It is one of my favorites. Chandler (11), Carter (7), and Christian (4).

Birthday #7!

Carter turned 7 a couple of weeks ago. On his actual birthday we had cake, ice cream and his choice for dinner. This weekend we had the party with family and friends. A good time was had by all! :)

Whirlwind...

Since my last post it has been a whirlwind of activity here. We have to renew our fingerprints with immigration in order to be able to get Mia. Ours expire 3.12.10. In order to get our free renewal of those prints, we had to do a home study update. There was quite a bit of miscommunication between our agency, myself, and our social worker about what was needed for the update. However, I believe it has all been ironed out. Tim and I went Saturday for fingerprints at Owens, those are for FBI and Ohio's BCI. We also had new physicals done. I had to fill out financial stuff as well. Once our agency approves the updated home study (it will note that our fingerprints from 2/20/10 are pending) I can overnight the info to Texas. When the fingerprint info comes in the social worker will write a letter stating that we are all clear and that will go to Texas as well.

So what does that mean? We are SLOWLY getting closer to getting Mia. I am hoping about 3 months away. We will go to Detroit once we get an appointment with immigration for fingerprinting. Last time it took a grand total of 5 minutes to do both of us, and that included a potty break. There are more steps after that, but right now I am just focusing on getting the stuff to Texas.

I did have a good dream last night. I dreamt that I was holding Mia and all the paperwork trouble melted away because she was in my arms.