Life in our house has continued on at its normal, crazy pace since I got home. School started, yard work needs to be done, dishes and laundry are never ending. Nothing has changed here, and I am SO thankful for the happy chaos that is our life. But I cannot get rid of the sadness in my heart. I knew that leaving A.J. behind was going to be hard, but I had no idea how much I was going to miss him! I look at his pictures every day. I think about him constantly. I just cannot wait to bring him home so I can tuck him in every night, make sure that he is getting enough to eat, take him to the doctors he needs to see, and love on him in a way he has never known. Just a few more months and you will have more love and hugs than you know what to do with little guy!
Our I800 has been submitted for approval from USCIS and we will be getting our medical exams and local police checks done (again!) next week. When we have the police checks and medicals done we will send them to our agency in country (along with our FBI background checks that were done last month) and our second stage documents will be complete. Then we just have to wait for USCIS to contact the Embassy in Sofia to let them know that our I800 is approved. They will issue the Article 5 letter which is the last piece of paperwork that we need to have complete before we get a court date. The court date will probably be 1-2 months after the Article 5 letter is issued. Then we have a short waiting period for the court decree and new birth certificate to be issued before we can make our second trip. We are still praying that we may be able to get him home before the end of 2012, but January or February of 2013 is probably more realistic. It seems like such a simple, straightforward paperwork process, but everything takes so much time!
I have a long list of things that I want to get done around the house before he comes home. Anyone want to come over to help me paint and reorganize? :-)
