NEW YEAR

 Gong Hei Fat Choi!!!       HAPPY NEW YEAR



I am amazed how how smoothly things are moving.
no hiccups  ?????
After going to Augusta Monday, I contacted the courier service
And he gave me all the info to fill out the paper for the
Consulate, being unsure about the turnaround time because
of the New Year Holidays. I told him" just do what you can do "
So I Fedex it out to him that evening.
Yesterday our agency contacted me to let me know that they
received the Fedex package !  ALREADY !!! 
So hopefully our Dossier will go to China next week !!!

 JUST AN AWESOME GOD !!! 

T-SHIRTS

 I currently have 1 Medium and 1 large in pink

And one of each  Small, Medium, Large, X-Large and 2XL in the Gray

 Suggested donation or $20 plus shipping
I can place another order if needed

WAITING

The boyz came home on Sunday from "Winter Blast"
They had a great weekend tubing and doing indoor games.
They had a great speaker that the teenagers could relate to.
I will get there some year !!

I took the girls to the mall while the boys were out.
Hrutuja and I enjoyed some awesome Indian food.
Rohana said "it was too spicey".
bought them both new sneakers (gym) and a stuffed animal

 Yesterday, I drove to Augusta to get our papers apostilled
Authenticated (I was corrected on my words at the window !)
It took a whole 10 min of waiting !!!
Contacted our courier service to get our papers to the
Chinese Consulate . Fedex it out !!!!

Praying to have our dossier go to China within the next couple weeks.

We received a surprise picture of our little peanut.
Once we get a certain paper we can share her picture.

GOVERNMENT APPROVAL

YIPEEE !!!!

THIS CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY..... I800A APPROVAL
IF YOU ARE NEW TO ADOPTION THIS DOCUMENT IS
OUR GOVERNMENT OK-ING US TO MOVE FORWARD
WITH THE ADOPTION OF OUR DAUGHTER AND SON !!!

Now on to notarizing then Apostiling documents in Augusta, Maine.
Excited to know that we are moving forward...
And guess what more snow coming our way !!!

WEEEEeee

We needed to play outside,  in the snow!

 So I shoveled snow and made a place to slide

They had the greatest time.
At one point Rohana slid off the back and flipped over and I thought she
was going to cry but she started laughing !! I was amazed

They were sharing one sled (we have many)




Still waiting for our fingerprints to clear

STUFF DONE

Today was another stormy day here in Maine.  Ice or rain
depending where you are. I was kind of laughing last night
saying "wouldn't it be awful if school was cancelled again !"
Because they missed 2 days last week because of the blizzard of 2013.
No cancellations or delays for Wells even though our drive way
was a sheet of ice. Sad that they went to school but happy that I could
get stuff done !!

Like:

Purchase a Anniversary card for my husband of 18 years !!
WOW, that is a long time. We are doing things we never thought
we would be doing.  SOO BLESSED

Opened the envelope of  the Apostliled items from another State.
Last week we applied for  a Passport for Hrutuja and realized I forgot
to take her Social Security card back to the office to get her last
name put on it.  yikes

Pay some bills and purchase some clothing for our new ones coming home
maybe this summer or fall.    Retail therapy was real relaxing !! LOL

Thursday will be 4 weeks since we had our fingerprints taken.
Hopefully soon our  I-797C will come in the mail. Then We will
Apostil things here in Maine and send it off to the Consulate in NY.


 Here is the gingerbread train that dad built with the 3 youngest.

They had fun building it and even more fun eating it after !!

PLAYING

 The girls love  playing with other children.

They had a great time at the family gathering.

And us adults just sat around and ate, played games and ate some more.



CHILDREN ARE A BLESSING !!!

2014

HAPPY NEW YEAR  !!!