Weekends...

It's so funny how much we look forward to weekends UNTIL you begin an adoption. Weekends become the enemy because everything shuts down for 2 days - you can't call your agency, you can't call your Province, you can't go to the offices you need to get paperwork done...

Well...I was finally able to talk with our Provincial Adoption Coordinator today and she was really great! We are able to use all our papework they have on file for our Ethiopian adoption (except we need original police checks - but not Interpol clearance!). Our Social worker has finished our new homestudy to reflect our desire to adopt a boy from China rather than a girl from Ethiopia :-)

So, back to the whole Waiting Child issue - again! The province now has to come up with some sort of legal agreement between PEI's legal counsel and our agency, Family Outreach International, so Chris and I can be matched with the child from our agency. It's not a difficult issue, it's just one that can take time. We want to be able to travel with the rest of the group in June so we don't want any delays! Of course, "delay" is the name of the game in adoption :-)

So, it looks like everything will move quickly and our dossier will be ready to submit to the Province for China approval on Wednesday or Thursday. We are hoping our agency can send our official referral this week now that the Province knows we are committing to adopt the little boy and we've already been approved to adopt by the Province.

Stay tuned....