AAAHHHHH!!!!

That’s all I have to say today. The clock is ticking, ticking, ticking on rebooking that flight. 14 days to go and no appointment letter in sight. So, today I am going to send and e-mail to Northwest Airlines pleading that they give me a 30 day extension on rebooking the flight…..

The rumors are still that the appointment letters will be going out on August 1st. I know you are thinking that soon, and it is, but it’s also a world away.

Not much new going on. Our letter requesting an appointment is somewhere between Ottawa and Ukaine so the wait is REALLY on. One rumor is that the deadline to submit letters is July 31st and then they are going to start assigning appointments on August 1st. AAAAHHHH!!! That’s to close for me. I need to have my appointment to rebook my flight by Monday August 7th and that a holiday…..so I need it by Friday August 4th.

We Are On Our Way (Well Almost)

On Friday we went to our agency and did our official letter to the SDA letting them know that we still want to adopt. As I write our letter is on it’s way to the lawyers to be notarized and will be sent to Ottawa by FedEx Monday where it will beauthenticatedd and sent to Ukraine by FedEx!!
Our registration number is 14514 or 14574 (hard to tell). Supposedly they will be starting with family 14300 and will be seeing 75 families per week. If you calculate this, this will put us in the 2nd or 3rd week. If you take out any families who have registration numbers between 14300 and ours and have already traveled or have pulled out, looks like we will be going in September for sure.
Like I have mentioned before, we are not out of the woods yet. We only have until August 7th to rebook our flights…but that’s the Monday of the long weekend, so we need our appointment letter by Friday August 4th. We have less than 4 weeks. If our letter goes today by FedEx, they should have it by Friday. We are guessing (and I mean guessing) that they have an approximate idea when everyone is coming. So lets hope that they are organized and once they get my letter they will be able to assign me an appointment date and will send it back to me by FedEx right away and will not put it in the mail. If they put it in the mail, we are looking at about 2 extra weeks to get the appointment letter to us. So pray for Fedex!!!

Good News & Bad News

Well apparently the press conference of the Minister of Health, with the new State Department on adoption and
children's rights regarding the reopening of international adoptions did happen on July 3rd. Originally it was scheduled for June 29th, but was postponed until July 3rd.

The rumors are that there are about 1200 waiting families who have submitted an application. In July the families already registered must confirm in writing their desire to get an appointment. In August dates of appointments will be sent out, according to the registration number, for September, October, November and December. Their plan is to see 300 families per month. The rumor is that they will be staring at # 14300 – well we are 14514….yeah!!! So that means we should be going in September.

But on the flip side, we only have until August 7th to rebook our flight…That’s seems a little tight in my books.