12 More Days

That's right folks, only 12 more days and our little Lili will be in our arms. While I would love to say she'll be in our arms forever, it will only be for 5 days, but it will be a wonderful 5 days I'm sure.

We are also very much looking forward to meeting her foster mom and hopefully the entire foster family. As is customary, we will come bearing gifts. I must say that the gift buying has been quite challenging. After all, what do you give to each member of a family that is so lovingly caring for your baby. There is nothing we can give that will ever express the love and admiration we have for this family. In the meantime, we'll do our best to let them know just how deeply we appreciate them and what they are doing for us and for Lili.

In case you are also trying to keep track of where we are in this process, we are currently on Day 29 of our wait for PA. Unfortunately, the Embassy was closed this week for some training, so no PA's were issued. I'm hoping for a PA storm this week to find out if the trend of PA's under 60 days will continue. Because we haven't heard otherwise, we are also assuming we're still in Family Court. The social worker interview was completed 23 days ago and it can take up to a month for the social worker report to be written. Once we have PA and are out of Family Court we can enter PGN. Each day we get one step closer and I get one day more anxious to get through these last two stages so we can enter PGN. Of course PGN can also be the longest and most treacherous part of this journey, but we need PGN's approval before Lili becomes ours legally. I can only imagine what my blog posts will look like when we get to that point. Keep reading, it could get real interesting!