Our adoption coordinator reviewed our dossier documents yesterday, and said that everything looks good to her. We plan on driving up to Atlanta a week from tomorrow, on Wednesday, November 6. I have my fingers crossed that we won't have to redo any of our documents. If we are able to get all the documents apostilled, the paper chase is over, except for waiting for our INS approval. This Friday, it will have been three weeks since the home study was sent to them.

After more troubles with mail being sent to our street address instead of our mailing address, we finally got our home study. We had the rest of our documents notarized by a very nice lady at my work. At lunch today, I faxed the dossier to our adoption coordinator. She's going to review it first thing Monday morning. Hopefully everything is in order and we can trek up to Atlanta to have everything apostilled.

We are officially with our adoption agency! I received a email from them with an invitation to join their email group. So, I finally got to share our happy news with the Angels, Tom's and my extended family.

The contract has arrived at our adoption agency! I tracked and it arrived at 9:01 a.m. I also spoke to someone at the home study agency and she is sending our narrative to INS this morning. We should get all our copies and material this weekend. Finally!

Once the adoption agency processes our contract, they will add us to the email loop and send us a huge binder full of stuff. That binder will become our bible until we have "CJ" home.

Yesterday, we met with a lawyer and he went over the contract with our adoption agency. It all looked good to him. Last night we signed it with my mother (CJ's Grandma!) witnessing our signatures. Tomorrow we'll be mailing it to the agency. When they receive it, we'll be on the waiting list for a referral.

The home study narrative is almost done! The agency emailed it to me this morning and a copy went to our adoption agency. There are some mistakes and misspellings, so we'll fax back the edits tomorrow. Hopefully, by the end of the week, we'll be sending it off to the INS.

We had a great time last Saturday. We went to a family wedding and then to dinner with Linda and Burl. It's fun looking forward to the day when we will have to take a break from doing things like that! I made another change to CJ's room to make it look more like a baby's room. I found the cutest teddy bear stickups to put on the wall. So, now my old baby dresser is in there, there's a bookcase full of children's books and the beginnings of a stuffed animal collection. I even think we've found the crib we want. It's the same stain as the baby dresser and will look perfect.