Getting sooooo close.

I faxed in our dossier for review by our FTIA social worker this week. Yesterday we had a phone conference and she told me a few things that we needed to get fixed. There wasn't anything major we needed to do and I've done/requested most of those documents today. So, where do we go from here? Our homestudy is in the mail and I am expecting it today or tomorrow. We will take one copy of that to the Secretary of State for State Certification. We will take the other copy to the local CIS office and it will be added to our I600A application. Our social worker will forward us a cover letter that goes with our dossier and we have to send that to the state of Michigan for state certification (long story). Once we receive all of those documents, we will overnight them to a courier service in Washington DC who will then take them to the US Dept. of State for certification and then to the Ethiopian Embassy for authentication. They will then be overnighted back to us and we will then overnight them to FTIA. And then the waiting begins. Because we are requesting an infant so young, our wait time may be a little longer than other families that aren't requesting an infant. I don't anticipate a huge wait as we will be one of the first families from FTIA to submit our dossier. So, we're all go here. In other news, we've actually met a family who is in the same process with our agency AND they are building a house just about 2 miles south of us. We're having dinner with them next week. It made us feel so good that we will have people so close to us that we can share this experience with. That's all for now.