We Finally Got It!!!

Exciting news here. We received our I-171H yesterday. This is great news. We are now ready to send our dossier off to Bulgaria. I think the worst part of the wait has been waiting for this piece of paper. It was suprising that such an important paper looks so unimportant. When I got it in the mail yesterday, I held my breath while opening it. I was expecting to see all sorts of seals and stamps on it, but it's just a general letter. Oh well, I made copies of it for our baby scrapbook anyway!

All of our paperwork that needed apostille from other states have been returned to us. Tomorrow we will send in our MN paperwork for apostille and we should have it back next week. Once we recieve all this back the whole works (every piece of paper we have been accumilating during this process) will be sent to our adoption agency (with a fee of course) and sent off to Bulgaria for translation.

We don't want to get our hopes up, but we are still praying we have our child home by December or January! Lets keep our fingers crossed.

Many of you have commented that I'm not doing much with my blog. I guess there's not much to post when not much is happening. It is very hard to try and come across as positive about this whole experience when there isn't any updates. We are beginning to find all of this "adoption stuff" so overwhelming. We are mixed with emotion: excited, happy, scared, apprehensive. I'm not sure there's an emotion we haven't experience yet. We are only looking forward to the sheer joy of finally holding our little Zackery!

There probably won't be any other blogs until we have more news (praying for a referral soon!). Until then, take care and enjoy your summer