wait

I'm not sure if I'm going to survive this waiting game. 10 - 14 months. I am on day 8 and am having a really hard time with this. If we are supposed to be Grant's forever family - then I want to get him now. It is hard to think about him and not know what kind of care he is receiving and not know what he does each day.

I will begin praying for patience during this wait. I am going to need it.

It was raining when we woke up this morning - so I nixed our plan to drive to Ft. Worth. I instead just put our request in the mail. Hope it gets there and the marriage license copy gets back here. I think we have time though...so there's no need to rush out in the rain for this document at this point.

Birth Certificates

Submitted a request tonight for our Birth Certificates. These will be part of our DTC (Dossier to China). At least I think so -- or they might be for our homestudy or perhaps for our I800 --- it is all slightly confusing to me. I just know that at some point we will need these and it's just easier to go ahead and request now rather than wait for them later.

I think Ashley and I will hop in the car tomorrow morning and make a drive to fort worth. Eric and I's marriage certificate is filled in Tarrant County. Requests can be made in person for a certified copy -- so I think we will do that tomorrow. Just another document that we can mark off the list.

I really want to get a jump start on all the paperchasing as it's called. I don't want the ball to ever be in our court just waiting on something that we could have had done. The wait is 10-14 months. And I don't want to add to that with any delays we could prevent.