Our paperwork is CERTIFIED!!!

WOW!! That was sooo quick! Who knew ANY government agency could get something done in 1 weeks time!!! YEAH!! We received the documents that had to be certified by the Washington Secretary of State.....now it's just the I-171 from Immigration that we're waiting on. We have our fingerprinting appt for May 27th (at 8am in Spokane...yuck!) and then we just need to wait for them to send us our I-171 which allows us to bring an orphan back into the US. Of course the timeline for that is different for every state - and I have yet to find our what Washington's timeline looks like. Some states get it back to you in a week! So let's pray for that to happen!!!! We're not even in line to get her until all this paperwork is turned in.....it's ironic that the waiting doesn't begin until you've got nothing to focus on but waiting.....my friend Bettina (who adopted from Ethiopia last year) said it best - pregnancy is very physical, but adoption is very emotional! At any point in this paperwork process if you stop doing the paperwork you're not pregnant any more :( what a journey it's been! And we're just beginning!!!