Our Adoption - 6 weeks to go 6/12/2005
Week 44
Wow, this week flew by! I can hardly believe it. And of course, the next 6 will most likely do the same. The less ready you are for the time to pass, the faster it seems to go. Of course there is a part of me that still feels like it is forever, and my child can’t find its way into my arms fast enough!!
This week we did the following:
- Picked up Steve’s redone medical form from his Dr.’s office
- took above form to be apostilled by the AZ Sec’y of State in downtown Phoenix
- started purchasing gifts to take with us
- located a physician to perform a pre-adoptive medical exam on our child
- updated our baby/toddler registry
- started the post-adoption paperwork through our employers (medical insurance, FMLA, etc.)
- applied for our visas - this turned out to be a much bigger task than I anticipated. It required
- collecting our passports
- each getting passport photos taken
- filling out a 4-page application for each of us
- acquire two money orders for each application (one for visa and one for the appl. fee)
- acquire two prepaid express mail envelopes (one to send everything in and another for the return package containing our passports and visas once processed)
- typing up a lengthy cover letter detailing all of the above
- sending it all off at an express mail location!
It was a busy week! 6 more to go…
I’m starting to bite my nails!