June 1st, 2009

More paperwork is coming in for our dossier/agency contracts. Still working on that contract with the adoption agency and still waiting on our research about the home study agency. Here is another original blog post by my wife, Rani:

Ah, the power of positive thought comes through for me again! I received my birth certs in the mail today - whoo hoo! Also hooray for thinking of going through the county office instead of the State office of vital records.

I have my passport renewal/update all put together and ready to go. Not that my passport is expired or anything. It’s just in the wrong name. Ladies, make a note: change your name on your passport within the first year of having said new name - it’s free. If, however, you do like I did and completely forget that you have the wrong name on your passport until a week before you’re slated to leave the country…well…let’s just say that timing was in my favor on this one, after all. I managed to get in and out of Canada before the passport regulation kicked in June 1st. However, given my current plans to travel to Bulgaria in the next year or two (hopefully!), I am sending it in for the update now.

Hmm…what else? At this point we are just waiting on the state to forward us the information on the different homestudy agencies that we are trying to choose between. Basically, we just asked them to verify that their licenses were current, and also asked for any information regarding complaints or compliance issues with each. Unfortunately, the state is cutting budgets left and right, and so what is normally an overworked agency is now taking even longer on these things. Not their fault, and in the greater scheme of things, an extra week or two isn’t too bad, I suppose.