Good News, Right?

So I got an e-mail from our agency today stating that Erwin and I need to update our criminal record checks.  No problem we can go down to the police station and get that done tomorrow morning.  Last time we did this I thought it would take weeks.  When I have had criminal record searches done for work, I just fill out the paperwork and it gets forwarded straight to the school district so I've never seen the process.  I usually just get an e-mail from HR a few weeks later saying that they've received it.  Anyways, when we went in for the adoption, they just looked it up then on the computer, there was no one else around and we were out the door with the criminal record searches in hand after about 20 minutes.  So I know where we will be tomorrow morning bright and early.

But here is the part that I am more excited about, this is how the e-mail started..."Your Vietnam file is in the matching process..." that can only be a good thing, right?  "Matching process" definitely sounds a whole lot better than waitlist or pile on some unknown person's desk, right?  I am going to take it as a good sign.  It is definitely at a stage where it is important for our file to be up to date.  That has to mean that somebody is going to look at it soon, right?

I am asking "right?" a lot...I want validation.  This is good news, right?

Isn't it funny how two simple little words "matching process" can just make your day!

Picnic Time

Erwin and I had a great time today connecting with other families who have adopted children from Vietnam or who are waiting to adopt children from Vietnam. Most of the group was from our agency but not exclusively, so we were able to make a lot of new connections. It is just so great to see that when we do bring our child home we will have such a great support group. And I thoroughly enjoyed getting to meet people who I have only met though blogs up until now.

Still no official word on when we will get proposals but we are thinking about starting a bit of a “baby pool” except in this case there are two dates to guess; proposal date and travel date! I definitely like the guesses that have us home with baby before Christmas!

We also got to connect with more Group 8 families so we are going to plan another get together and we are already talking about a proposal party when that day comes along!! Please send all positive thoughts, prayers and crossed fingers our way!!