Preparing

So, we spent the weekend preparing for our little guy to come home. We bought a bed, manipulated the bunk beds to add the new queen mattress, bought storage shelves for the boys, put Bethany back in her room and took down the crib. She took a twin bed with her from Scott's room. The organization is still in the process. J's (previously refferred to as A) recycled and new clothes are finally all washed and ready to get put away. Now if only I would find the time to tackle the flannel blanket I want to make J before he comes home.

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We got another approval!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am a little anal/concerned/excited about our trip to Et so I emailed my favorite person over at our local homeland security office.  Read below to see why I love her!!!
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Hi Tamara:

 

Your fingerprints cleared, and I issued the approval on 03/10/2010 (Wednesday). You should get your I-171H in the mail either tomorrow or definitely next week.  The I-600A packet was mailed to the National Visa Center, who will forward it to the consulate.

 

Hope this bit of news makes your weekend more relaxing! J

 

Sincerely,

 

Amy 

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Time-Off

If you can't tell, I'm a little excited to go to Ethiopia... plus I just had a starbucks frappuccino (the kind you buy at target) and since I don't normally drink coffee or sugary drinks, I'm all hyped up!
 
I just did my time-sheet for work a bit ago and counted that between sick leave and vacation time, I currently have just over 7 weeks off.  I was hoping for at least 8 by time we travel.  We'll see what happens.

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one little potential problem

We passed court yesterday.  We don't have our I-171 approval yet.

 

We can't go to Ethiopia until we have that approval from our government in the embassy in Ethiopia.  The good thing is that we asked the government to send our approval to that embassy.

 

We had our biometrics appointment on Feb 24th.  Not even a month has passed yet.  Wouldn't it be cool if it arrived in the mail today... that would be a nice change of pace for our process :)

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one little potential problem

So we passed court.  But we don't yet have our I-171 approval. 

 

We did our biometrics appointment on Feb 24th.  So, not even a month has passed yet.  I'm hoping our approval comes today, wouldn't that be God ordained!?!?!?

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Court Results

We PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(and really didn't expect anything different)

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