Where has the year gone?

It's hard to believe that we started this journey waaaayyyy back in January of 2008. Now, over a year later, we are anxiously awaiting our LOI (Letter of Invitation to travel), which is expected within the next few weeks (we hope!)

We have done a poor job of keeping everyone informed - sorry! Here is a synopsis of where we've been and where we're at now:

01-08 Started the process of choosing a country and interviewing agencies, going to meetings, etc.
03-08 Signed on with Little Miracles International for adoption from Kazakhstan (over there by the rest of the "stans" for those of us geographically challenged!) of a 6 mo to 3 1/2 year old.
05-08 Recieved our I-171H form from the feds telling us to go for it.
06-08 Started what we thought would be the easiest process - the homestudy....
08-08 Finally after over 2 months and many e-mails the home study agency completed thier part - now for the really fun part - collecting all those pesky dossier documents!
12-08 Dossier complete!!!! Now for the apostille and other legal mumbo jumbo...
02-09 Dossier in the Kazakhstan consulate - we're on our way now! Only 9-12 more months to go... ugh.
03-09 New development - a 4 year old? Ok, why not! But what do you mean be ready to travel in 2 months??????
04-09 Travel dossier, court paperwork, embassy paper work all complete - we truly are in a waiting mode now.

So there you go in a nutshell, the reason we've been so crazy for the last year!

I expect our next entry will be when we get the LOI and have a date to travel, but with this blog started that's one more thing to tick off my list. (and those of you that know me well - I LOVE lists) Stay tuned folks!