Dossier. Pronounced Doh-see-ay.

Ahhh!! Finally I'm blogging! I'm the worst blogger in the history of bloggers. Mostly I'm lazy. But also, not a whole lot has gone down adoption wise for a while. I believe I jumped the gun on my last post stating so exuburantly that we had finished our homestudy. Well....turns out I was off a bit. And by a bit I mean about a month. So, along with being lazy, I felt slightly embarassed to have made such a big proclamation. Oh well, alls well that ends well. I can now say with 100% certainty that OUR HOME STUDY IS COMPLETE!! Not only that, but our registration for Russia is also complete. Check me out!! And to think I called myself lazy.

So the next step is a little thing called our Dossier. It's actually not little at all. In fact, it's a bit daunting to think about. The good news is that the dossier is the last phase of this never ending, stress inducing, black hole that is the adoption process. The bad news is I'm pretty sure I don't know what I'm doing or exactly how to approach this. I have to get so many documents notarized and apostilled (which, by the way, I have no idea what that is) that I don't know where to begin. It'll happen one way or another. Of that I'm sure. Knowing that this is the last step before the fun stuff begins, motivates me to figure it out and get a move on! Not to mention the sooner we finish this the sooner we get our child. And the sooner I get my child the sooner I get to take said child to Disneyland. If there was ever a reason to have children, that's it right there. So here's to dossiers and Disneyland.