Adoption Awareness Month

November is National Adoption Awareness Month!  A fellow adoptive mom, Valerie,  is posting about it daily on her blog.  Go check it out http://fromthetrenchesofadoption.blogspot.com/  I am donating a super cut pair of mittens to Valerie's give away.  Here is a pic of my contribution.

Yes, for those of you Twilight fans who are thinking these look familiar.  They are inspired by the mittens that Bela wears in the first movie.  If you want to win these....check out Valerie's blog and find out how.

As for my adoption process.....well, I finally got my biometric appointment date for 11/21.  I wasn't very happy about it being so far off.  So, I decided to go up the afternoon of Halloween to beg them to do the biometrics early.  And they did!  I also had to call my USCIS officer in charge of my case to let her know that I had them done early and needed my approval as soon as possible.  She asked me to call her back on Thursday, when I was told that my file was in the "to be approved today" stack.  So, I am expecting to have my updated approval in my hands sometime next week.  I know I will have to take some more time off to get all the docs apostilized asap!  I am praying that I will have all my updated docs on the way to Bulgaria by the end of next week.