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Officially Waiting

I emailed our agency this week and I got a response back today. Our Vietnam coordinator said that they have not heard of any problems with our dossier, so it seems that it has gone through with no issue. She said that so far they have been notified within a few days if there were any issues. So it looks like we are officially waiting, time to start putting the nursery together.

Last Day

Today was the last day of school before summer vacation. I have to go back Monday and Tuesday for meetings but the students are done. Since I loop from first to second grade I will have the same group of students next year which is great. They are a wonderful group of kids.

I am looking forward this summer to researching and buying some of the bigger things like the crib. I also want to pick out the fabric and sew the bedding.

I will probably be teaching summer school in August so my vacation will be a little shorter than usual, but the extra money will go straight to our adoption expenses. Hopefully I will be taking my maternity leave next school year so that will make up for the short summer.

Translation Complete

I emailed our agency yesterday about the status of our dossier. I think I have some funny esp with our agency. I always seem to contact them when something progresses. The last time I called to see if our dossier had been mailed to Vietnam, and she had just put it in the mail. The message today was that their facilitator in Vietnam had just this morning contacted her to let her know that the notary office in Vietnam had finished translating our dossier. The facilitator delivered it to the DIA today. It took a little longer for them to translate our dossier than it did the first two they sent.

I had also asked if we would know when our dossier was accepted by the DIA or if they would only notify us if there were problems. She said that with the first couple they were notified of any problems and then were told when they were done reviewing them but no official log in date. I pretty much new there wouldn't be a log in date, but it sounds like we will have some indication of when they are done with our dossier.

So for the next couple of weeks I don't want to hear anything from our agency. No news is good news because if they contact us it will probably be because there is problems with our dossier. Which will mean we have to add or redo something. That means more time and money.

She also said she would notify us of any pertinent dates that would help determine an approximate wait time. I was a little surprised by this but also very excited. Since they haven't done any placements from Vietnam I didn't think they would have any way of calculating anything. But who knows, they may not know anything more until they get their first referral.