Waiting on some stuff, now waiting on us

I really suck at keeping this blog up to date, so I apologize. Part of the reason is there is either nothing to report as we are waiting, or we're in a very stressful situation at the moment that we're trying to solve. Our I-600A was approved. We got a copy of the I-171H and one was sent straight to Ukraine. We are gathering the last few things we need for our dossier. We are also waiting to gather the rest of the money we need at this moment. Once we get all that, we will be sending all of our  stuff to Ukraine. It's very excited, but boy is everything so stressful. I keep thinking of the end result of having a child and a child having us. It will totally be worth it at the end and I just keep reminding myself this when it gets to be too much. We're really hoping to be able to go to Ukraine in the summer when Tim doesn't have as much work, but with the occasional delay, it makes me worried. I'm still hoping we can do it in June. Plus, with Tim's birthday and our 10 year anniversary, I think June would be perfect. The other benefit of a summer trip would be when our child would go to school, they would probably still start after everyone, but at least towards the beginning of the school year. AZ schools start between the end of July and beginning of August, depending on the district and if they are year round or not. Back to the adoption stuff though. I have a goal of Easter to have our dossier sent. Here's hoping we can do that!!! Crossing our fingers everything will work out. But I am confident it will work out all in a time that is meant to be.

In the meantime, when we aren't able to do things, I have been decorating the room, working on the Shutterfly photo book so they can get to know all the rooms of the house before they come home, and thinking of Americanized middle names we can give them. We will be keeping their first name so they don't feel we are taking their identity away. We will give them a middle name that we chose just for them, and we will obviously give them the last name as their family name.

It's late, and I'm sure I've just talked in circles, but just know we are still working at this and we are hopeful everything will work out shortly.