Happy Birthday!

Today is the birthday of two little girls in Landia.  The twins are turning two years old and there is a chance that by their next birthday they will be at home here with me.  For now I will call them Faith and Hope.  I won't know for a few more months whether they will definitely be my daughters, but it is a definite possibility. As I have been telling people, it is up to God and the Bureaucracy at this point, but I have an absurd trust in both of them, although much more in the first than the second.



In other news, I got a great birthday present for them in the mail today: my fingerprinting appointment letter.  This is the letter that USCIS sends to let me know that I can now get my biometrics done to get approval to adopt children internationally.  The appointment is for one week from today, which is the day before my dossier will fly off to Landia with a family that is finishing their adoption process.  The dossier will take about a month to translate by which time I should have USCIS approval.  I have a general timeframe that I think the rest of the process will take, but it is a little early for me to publicly speak about it.  Let's just say that I am hoping to be in Landia sometime late Spring or early Summer.