Finally...Finally...Finally!!!

Well after:
1,571 days of waiting
3 PCS Assignments
4 Separate rooms deemed to be"the room" where we will get Madison
3 I-600A renewals
4 Fingerprint Appointments
4 Different USCIS offices
4 Separate Home studies
Enduring 4 years, 3 months of Renee shopping
2 Lost Fingerprint scans
20,000+ emails about adoption/separation/planning (really 20,000 plus...Renee saved them all)
50+ Phone calls explaining to USCIS that YES I was born in England but I am a US Citizen...just check the damn birth certificate
1 Late referral notification
1 Week travel delay because....Hell at this point who knows
1 Argument over whether to purchase a seat or lap ticket for Madison...I lost and $890 later Madison has a seat!!

WE ARE HEADING TO CHINA TO GET MADISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  3 WEEKS AND COUNTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally TA!!!

Well, Well...seems a little miracle happened and our TA arrived on Friday.  We should know Monday our actual travel dates.  Not giving it much hope since I have lost most of my faith in certain aspects of folks who control our adoption.  I am sure some sort of delay will happen again.  I know I should be grateful, but I am sick and tired of walking on eggshells and worrying about offending "people, orgs and places".  ENOUGH!  It is time for Madison to come home and I refuse to apologize for how I feel. 

Delayed and Still Waiting!!???

Well our travel to China to pick up the little punk has been delayed.  Seems our travel approval has been "delayed"????  After talking to several families in our travel group our "BS" detector is going off in full force.  Every other family with a 4-10 LID already has travel approval or is in China.  Someone screwed up somewhere and we are getting PISSED!!!  To say our disappointment level with our agency is at a 100% is an understatement.  Up to our referral they were amazing, since the actual referral, how it was handled and now the travel delays....NOT SO MUCH.  Ya know, whats a few more weeks after 4 years of waiting?  A few more weeks is like adding another 1,000 years to the wait.!!!!

Still Waiting

Well, we are still waiting on our travel approval.   This is starting to suck.  We are ready to go!!!!  If folks can't get their crap together, don't make the rest of the travel group wait, put them in the next group.  Always some fool who thinks the world should wait for them.  It's time for Madison to come home, we deserve it and most importantly she deserves it and deserves to get out of that orphanage!!!  Maddie should not spend 1 more day in that place then is absolutely necessary!  I know they treat the kids well, but I hate the thought that she is there when she could be being spoiled with us and making us better people!!