Ready to Wait

Our last leg of paperwork was sent to Holt this week. There was a letter that came from the state health dept. about our adoption agency and a letter from the adoption agency itself. Marissa said that is all that she needs. Now our dossier will be translated into Thai. I wonder if I will be able to get a copy of it. I think it would be so cool to have copies of our dossier in Thai and in English.

Holt Sahathai sends referrals of kids from Thailand to Holt every quarter. There are usually 5 to 8 children in each group. Holt got their latest group this week. Marissa said that we definitely were not getting a child out of this group. I knew it would probably be too good to be true since we just got our dossier in. She said that we are now number 3 on the list. Soooo we will be in great standing to get a baby referred to us at the end of June. I am so happy. That gives us some time to sell our house in Castle Ridge and get our money together. When they refer us a child we have to pay $8900 to the Thai government.

Marissa also sent a letter to Shaohannah's Hope for us. They are an adoption grant ministry founded by Steven Curtis Chapman. We are hoping to get a grant from them. We still have to come up with all of our money up front and then they will reimburse us.

I am already thinking about the babies room. I want to do lime green and royal blue if it's a boy and lime green and pink if it's a girl. I am also thinking about elephants. Elephants are one of the symbols of Thailand. I want to to it in more abstract form though. I am searching the Internet for ideas.