I-800A Application

During the week we waited for our home study completion, we began filling out our I-800A application through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.  Once we got the official completion noticed, we sealed up the application with a nice little check and mailed it to our agency who then included the home study and sent it away to U.S. Immigration.  The technical title for the application is Application for Determination of Suitability to Adopt a Child from a Convention Country. This is when the U.S. says that we are suitable to adopt a child from China.  The average time for I-800A approval is about two months.  During this time, we will get an appointment to get fingerprinted at the Immigration office, and after that we will sit and wait for approval.

While we are sitting and waiting, we start gathering all of our paperwork together, so we can be ready to send our dossier (doss-eee-ay) to China when we get the I-800A approval.  I'm a little (a lot) overwhelmed with the need to fill out grant applications, and since the dossier preparation packet showed up in my inbox... well... I feel like this guy right here...

My goal today is to take a few deep breaths, vacuum my living room floor covered with hot pink Easter grass (thank you very much, Caroline), and do a few loads of laundry, so we can have some clean clothes around here.  Tomorrow, I'm going to work on grants. I'm also going to continually remind myself not to COMPLETELY freak out about the 572 things I could freak out about right now.

How cool is this?  This is the 'good kind' of overwhelming going on right now.  People are rocking it with the garage sale donations!  The clothes are organized by size and gender right now, thank you very much. Good thing I've only used my formal dining table a whole three times since we've lived here.  It's the perfect spot for garage sale stuff!

The first Fundraiser Giveaway is coming up on the blog next week, so stay tuned!