Here's another date to put on our timeline! Our home study was updated and has been sent to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service in order to update our clearance to bring the kiddos into the country. We received our original clearance from USCIS back in August 2010, but these things expire after a certain amount of time, and in order to get it current, we had to have our home study updated. So we did that, and as soon as I got the final document in my hands, I sent it out to USCIS. Yay for that!
Yeah, there really haven't been many items to document on the timeline recently. The last noteworthy date was back in October when we learned that we were #15 on the wait list. When I started the blog, actually when I opened it so that other people could read it back in August, the real purpose that I had in my mind was to use it as a travel log for while we were in Honduras, so that I could keep friends and family updated on exactly what was happening while we were there, every little step of the way. I had started writing long before that, but mostly what I was doing was keeping track of the dates of events with regard to this adoption. In August, we were somewhere south of #28 on the wait list, and I thought we would get our referral soon, so I wanted to have the blog all nice and ready so that when we were travelling, we could make entries along the way. Things like: "oooooh, we travel tomorrow!" and "just landed in Honduras!" and "our children are so beautiful!!!"
As you well know, things have not gone according to my little plan. Other than learning we were #15 on the wait list, there has been nothing concrete to document. So we've had to make do with the musings of my big hard head [I'm just like Caldonia: what makes my big head so hard?]. I've definitely enjoyed doing it. I love to write, and putting my thoughts of these last few months down in words has really helped solidify my thinking.
So that's all I've got for now. Hopefully before too long I will have something really exciting to document on the timeline!