Barcelona, Mexico City, California, and Addis Ababa; a family of four.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
400+ e-mails
A while back I joined two Yahoo groups about Ethiopian adoptions. Well, since then I forgot all about them and basically got my fill of information through the blog community. After reading Jocelyn's blog about the use of pictures on our blogs I got a little paranoid (if you know me, please don't laugh; I know the use of "little" is quite the understatement since I am already paranoid to begin with). So I decided to check my yahoo groups. Wouldn't you know it I had about 400+ e-mails about all sorts of adoptions things dating back to early summer 2007. I cannot just delete e-mail without at least taking a quick look at the content. I'm finally done, and after all that reading I've decided that we cannot take a chance with posting pictures of our babes before they are actually legally ours. It is with a very heavy heart that I tell you that you will have to wait until after we have a successful court date before we show you our little Ethiopian beauty. In the mean time I will be posting pictures of our beautiful little girl who is home with us.
I will just say this... SMART! You can't take any chances - I am glad that I got to see the beauty that she is and look forward to seeing her again when the time is right!
04/28/07-turned in notarized reference letter to Heartsent
04/30/07-turned in notarized work verification to Heartsent-Samantha
05/02/07-2nd home study meeting
05/03/07-Samantha's physical @ Kaiser
05/17/07-Fernando's physical @ Kaiser
05/18/07-third, and last, home study meeting
05/21/07-Fernando picked-up employment letters
05/25/07-picked up notarized account verification letters
06/01/07-sent FBI request
06/04/07-notarized physicals
06/04/07-turned in notarized physicals and copy of Fernando's passport to Heartsent
06/07/07-Gladney received our signed medicals and last letter of recommendation-application complete
06/08/07-had parent letter notarized
06/11/07-Heartsent sent off home study to CIS (last week)
06/14/07-We received our FBI documents
06/15/07-Reveived Heartsent's license, home study apporver's license, and post placement contract
06/18/07-notarized FBI paperwork (Samantha)
06/18/07-Received renewed passport (Samantha)
06/19/07-picked up completed home study
06/19/07-received letter from CIS asking for more proof of citizenship (Samantha). FedExed them a copy of new passport
06/22/07-Officially Gladney approved!!!
06/26/07-Notarized a copy of Samantha's passport and Fernandp's FBI documents
06/28/07-Scanned and e-mailed most of the Dossier documents to Gladney
07/02/07-Authenticated in the County Clerk's and Secretary of State offices about half of our documents
07/05/07-FedExed authentication packet to NY Secretary of State & about half of completed dossier to Gladney
07/06/07-Received Samantha's birth certificante. Sent other half of dossier for California authentication
07/10/07-Picked-up CIS approval leter, notarized it and authenticated up to the state level
07/25/07-sent for NY Authentication- Kings County Clerk
08/01/07-Kings County Clerk sent authentication on to the Secretary of State in NY
08/08/07-received NY authenticated documents
08/22/07-we are officially waiting for a referral
09/05/07-found out that our dossier was sent to Ethiopia as of last week; some time, and that "Belay (one of our in-country representatives) confirmed that he received your dossier in Ethiopia."
12/18/07-Recieved a picture of our baby
01/24/08-Court date scheduled for 02/19/08
02/19/08-Courts need more information
03/03/08-1 year aniversary since our adoption proces began
03/19/08-Judge states our file is incomplete
03/26/08-Judge did not go into court
03/27/08-Judge states our file continues to be incomplete
04/09/08-Made hotel reservations
04/10/08-Court for the 5th time (postponed till tomorrow)
1 comment:
I will just say this... SMART!
You can't take any chances - I am glad that I got to see the beauty that she is and look forward to seeing her again when the time is right!
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