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04/12/2004: "Updates"

mood: Tired (it's monday blah :P)

Well we had our first "real" homestudy meeting. We got a bunch of paperwork to fill out and some packets of info to read and some video's to watch. Doesn't look like anything to bad so far. We already have our next homestudy meeting for this next wednesday day 4/14 and will only have 1 more after that which is the home visit (wow). They it will take about 2 weeks for the homestudy report to be completed.

We've also sent in the application to our agency (Alaska International Adoptions). We're hoping we'll be able to have our dossier submitted to russia by the end of june.

We got some news from the agency that our wait might not be anywhere near as long as we thought. We were thinking about 6 months from dossier submission to child referal for an infant female, but they said more like 2 months is what they are seeing (wow). So it could be as soon as september or october that we would get a referal.

So of course that speeds things up alot

We are going to go register for baby stuff this week probably, my parents and others are excited and want to start buying stuff.

Crystal will probably post more on that, but wow is there alot of pick from out there, we are doing a ton of research on the "safety" type items (carseats, strollers, etc).

Well back to work for me.