Soon!

Today our dossier will be sent to Vietnam. It will take about a week to get there and then it needs to be translated. After it is translated we can get our referral any time.

My friend is home from Vietnam and it doesn't sound like she had a very good trip. Now I'm really nervous. I haven't talked to her in person yet, just through email. She said they made a list of do's and don'ts for others who will be traveling there. She's not been feeling well since she's been back so I'm not sure when we'll get together. I want to hear all of the details of the trip so I know what to expect.

She did give me some inside information. There were 4 families in her travel group who had their Giving & Receiving ceremony (G&R, this is when the child is officially handed over to you) on May 28, 5 families had their G&R the following week and 10 families this week. When she was at the orphanage she said there were about 30 babies there. She also found out that there are 10 dossiers before ours that need to be translated. So if you do the math, that would mean that as soon as our dossier is translated we should get a referral. We're so close. I think they're pretty busy in Vietnam now with the 10 families being there so I don't know if they will do any translating until after that. So maybe a couple of weeks? The first week of July? And as far as travel, if we have a referral the first week in July there is a possiblity we could travel the end of July or probably August. So I have lots to do in the meantime.

Mark and the boys are going to Noah's Ark today with our church and I'm home working. But that's OK, I'll get a lot done.