Friday, May 29, 2015

Plane Tickets Purchased!

Plane tickets x 4 purchased.  We are flying into Honolulu a day before our scheduled flight to Majuro as I don't want any flight delays to stymie us catching our flight to Majuro, especially since there are only three flights a week!  We ended up booking the flights from Seattle to Honolulu and Honolulu to Majuro separately as it was much cheaper than buying a combined ticket through United (the only airline that flies to Majuro) and the only way to get direct flights.  United wanted us to have a layover in New Jersey, which if I'm remembering my geography correctly, is not on the way to Hawaii from Seattle!  We bought round trip tickets and will just hope that things go smoothly and we don't have to eat a bunch of change ticket fees.  It was again, much cheaper, than two one way tickets and easier than buying last minute seats for 4 people.  As was, it was hard to find seats together for such last minute ticket purchases!  Next step is to get our court paperwork notarized.  We have a travel notary coming to the house tomorrow morning.  We then need to scan this form and send it in pdf format to Adopt International so that John (the lawyer in Majuro) can submit it to the court first thing on Monday and apply for our court date. 

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

REALLY PACKING!!!

Oh my goodness, we got the call!  Technically got the call 5 days ago, one day after my last post, but we were out of town so I didn't post.  Had our medical consult today and got two thumbs up for a healthy child!  Sorry, no details about the baby until everything becomes official.  Waiting on our court date and travel details.  I should have started packing weeks ago when I was told to start packing!  For those of you who are on the list, be prepared to leave at any time.  We were still not family #1, #2, or #3, but the birth mom was looking for something specific and so they skipped over everybody to us.  Gotta go pack!  And shop!

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Packing!

Well, we have been told TWICE now in the past two weeks that we need to start packing!  No referral yet but we've been told that it could happen any day now.  We were just given a more refined packing list which mentions no swimming suits for women.  Board shorts or swim skirt and swimming shirts over swimsuits only.  Not even a one-piece suit will fly.  Found some cute stuff on Amazon.  My skin will thank me, I'm sure.  Also no tank tops or shorts. Shoulders need to be covered as well as legs past the knees.  Now I need to dig out our baby clothes from the storage closet and start sorting by age and gender.  Since we don't know either of those two things, I'll just have to have labeled piles that I can quickly throw into a suitcase.  I was told that after we receive our referral, we have two weeks to have it reviewed by a physician and to accept or decline it, but that we should really accept within 7 days.  After we accept, they will apply for a court date, which depending on timing, could mean that we need to be in Majuro within 7 days!  So we really should be ready to be in Majuro within 2 weeks of receiving our referral.  It'll be a whirlwind couple of days but I've been assured that after that, everything just slows down to island time.  We were told we'd be updated again in mid-June unless we get a referral before then...