I'm really looking forward to this weekend. In fact, I'm only working a half day tomorrow and so I'll get an early start to a nice long 3 day weekend. We don't really have any plans to go anywhere.
We might do a little...
car shopping. Yuck. I hate buying cars. But Naomi's car is ready to roll over and die. It's a 1992 Nissan Sentra. Yeah, we usually drive our cars until the wheels fall off.
I was just reading on Clark Howard's site that if you keep your cars for at least 10 years, you will save enough money to retire 5 years earlier. Interesting. Anyway, we're looking at Toyota Camry's, Honda Accord's, and Nissan Altima's. Sorry, but we're not buying into the hype that we have to buy a huge SUV or minivan just because we're going to have a child. :-)
Other than doing a little car shopping I'll probably spend most of my time on the computer. My friend, Mike, & I are about to open up a Web Hosting business. We've been working on it for over a year now. We both work full-time jobs so this has been our side project. We're almost ready to open up for business. This weekend I'll spend a lot of time working on it.
I might try to make it out to the pool once or twice. It's time to get a little sun. It was a brutal winter and my pale skin makes me feel unhealthy. I need some color!
So that's about it. I'm sure it will be a busy weekend for us but I also think I'll have some time to relax. Maybe do a little reading.
How about you? Any plans for the weekend?
Well, so far, so good. We heard from CCAI last week. They asked us to over-night one document to them. I'm assuming that since they only asked for one document, everything else should be in order.
I can't wait to get that email that tells me our dossier has been sent to China!
I packaged up our entire dossier and shipped it off to CCAI earlier today. I almost feel like I can finally relax a little. But I think I'll wait until CCAI reviews it and notifies me that everything is in order before I start doing the happy dance.
They will receive it tomorrow, and it could take up to 4 weeks for them to review, translate, and send it off to China. So it looks like we'll probably be part of the June DTC group.
We received all of our paperwork yesterday. That means everything has been notarized, certified & authenticated. Monday I'll make copies of the entire dossier and then overnight it to CCAI.
We're actually getting close to wrapping up this crazy paper chase...
Our courier service said that since last Friday was a Chinese holiday they couldn't get things started until Monday. They expect to have it back by Thursday. So I'm hoping we get it on Friday.
If we do, we'll put everything together over the weekend and then put it in the mail to our agency (CCAI) on Monday. They will receive it on Tuesday May 11th. My guess is we won't be DTC until June. But I'll talk to them and see what they can do. I'd love to be in the May group. But I'm not holding my breath.
Has anyone else had trouble gathering the required photos? Ugh... what a pain. The hardest part is finding photos with both Naomi and I in them. Usually, one of us is taking the picture.
We finally got all of our pictures together. But this caught us off guard. I'd recommend not waiting until the last minute to work on this part of your dossier.