Wednesday 25 February 2009

Magical Email has ARRIVED!!!!!

I don't know if the DCSF read my blog or if shouting at them this afternoon worked or what?!?! But I have FINALLY received the magical email containing the information I need to book DHL to send our dossier to Ethiopia!!!! Our dossier should be there by Monday!!!!!

Its not quite sunk in yet!!! Someone pinch me and make sure I'm not dreaming!!!

What a difference an email can make :-)

12 comments:

kn said...

Yippeee!!!

I'm so happy for you.

And, as all of us in New York City know - of course yelling helps:-))

Mac said...

WooHoo! Finally! I am so happy for you.
Keep us posted.

Anonymous said...

Hooray at last!!!!!! So pleased for you!!!

love WL xxx
PS We have dealt with Paul before, he is great xxx

Alix said...

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop.I know I don't comment on this blog very often but trust me, reading all this has been stressing me out :p

yay! :)

Anonymous said...

Janet is going to Ethiopia to get her daughter SOON! Yeah...so happy for you my friend. What a relief.

Love,
Lisa A

Rosie said...

At last.Something worked!!!!!
I don't know how you have put yourself through this twice!! It will be worth it though.
Roll on Monday.Then how long does it take?

Janet said...

Hi Kristine,
Thank you :-)
Me and Mr Messy visited New York 10 years ago and it was noisy! Lots of fun too :-)
Love
Janet
xxx

Janet said...

Hi Mac,
Thank you :-)
I'm sat at the computer (again!!) waiting to hear that our dossier has been collected and is on its way :-)
Love
Janet
xxx

Janet said...

Hi WL,
Thank you - I can't wait to hear that they've sent your papers too!! Fingers crossed that Paul has a mad fit of "dossier shelf" clearing!!
Love
Janet
xxx

Janet said...

Hi Alix,
Lovely to hear from you and thank you :-) Sorry you were getting stressed too!! Or is that another excuse for not doing your uni reading?!?!
Love
Janet
xxx

Janet said...

Hi Lisa,
Thank you :-) I'm so hoping it will be smooth sailing from now on!!
Love
Janet
xxx

Janet said...

Hi Rosie,
Perhaps it was the yelling or perhaps it was the crying while I was on the phone yesterday! Perhaps it was even the threat of contacting the Director General!! But at least something finally worked!!
It has been mega mega stressful this last year going through all this again, and many times I've been convinced that we wouldn't be allowed to continue. But finally we are on the home straight and live seems so much brighter again :-)
We could hear something almost immediately or we could wait a month or two, it all depends on who is in the orphanage. We can travel on the first trip pretty quickly, as soon as we get the ok from our LA and the DCSF. Then we have to wait for our assigned Court Date, and that is taking about 12 weeks at the moment. I think that is going to be the longest 12 weeks of my life :-( I am dreading going meeting our new little one and then having to leave her and come home without her for that length of time :-(
Love
Janet
xxx


OUR ETHIOPIAN ADOPTION TIMELINE


25th May 2009 - See New Child again & Court Date

23rd May 2009 - Fly back to Ethiopia

26th March 2009 - Fly to Ethiopia :-)

3rd March 2009 - Dossier Arrived at Orphanage

26th February 2009 - Dossier sent to Ethiopia

22nd December 2008 - Dossier back at DCSF

28th November 2008 - Certificate of Eligibility ISSUED

6th October 2008 - PASSED Approval Panel

7th July 2008 - Homestudy Update Started

28th Feb 2008 - Told LA we wished to change country

OUR CHINA ADOPTION TIMELINE

Formally withdrew from the China Adoption Programme 17th July 2008

LID (Logged in Date) with CCAA 16th August 2007

Documents to China 10th August 2007

Passed Approval Panel 5th March 2007

Homestudy started 6th June 2006

First Contact with our LA 1st Jan 2006