While We Wait

Trying to keep busy, waiting for the phone to ring with a referral in the months ahead; some things to look forward to:

4/21 Trashcan Sinatras at the Rams Head in Annapolis

4/26 Waiting For the Sirens' Call , first studio release in 4 years from New Order. Listen to the single "Krafty", it encompasses all the things that make this band so fantastic. I cannot wait for this album.

5/6 Kingdom of Heaven, another Orlando Bloom costume piece; P's really excited to see it, and I must admit it looks pretty cool. Crusaders! Chainmaille! Liam Neeson! What's not to like?

5/19 Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, okay, so Episodes 1 and 2 pretty much sucked, and Hayden Christiansen is a pretty lame Anakin (and let's not get me started on the scrumptilicious Ewan MacGregor's nasty-ass Obi-Wan facial hair), but anyone brought up on the original trilogy is anxious to see how George Lucas ties up all the loose ends for Episode 4.

5/24 Snow Patrol returns to the 9:30 Club in D.C. They were so utterly fantastic I can't wait to see them again.

Public Service Announcements

Since nothing much else is going on besides us listening to the phone message about our Homestudy going to Korea over and over...thought I'd just post some websites I find useful:

Tiny URL-people, please use this instead of posting those ginormous links that go on for days, make forum pages get all wide and make me scroll!!

Bug Me Not-no, I don't want to register at your site just to read one damn article. with this , I don't have to

ImageShack-you guessed it, they host images

And to answer some questions:
Jacks-our agency works with Holt Korea
Kendra-we aren't allowed to choose gender as first-time parents; in all likelihood we will be matched with a boy

The Best News!

Exciting update-our homestudy is on its way to Korea! This means we’ll get put in the queue-still no idea of how long we will actually have to wait for a referral, but we are terribly excited. It’s happened faster than we expected, but that’s a good thing

Small World

Turns out that the couple we met at the PIPS meeting who live in our town got their referral recently. The reason I know this is the husband sits next to one of P's co-workers in his church choir...We really do live in a small world!

Bask in the cuteness

if only he'd do the dishes too

Relief

Well, one more step to cross off our list! The home visit is complete, and went well. We also got the letter from BCIS to get our fingerprints done (again); we'll go on Wednesday. Right now a hold-up for the homestudy is we still don't have my state of MD clearance-when I called today, was told to call back in 2 weeks if I haven't received anything by then. Grrrr.
This is the part that makes me most anxious-everything from now on is out of my hands. At least I felt a sense of control when we had all our paperwork to do; now, not so much.

Pip Pip Hooray

Went to our first PIPS meeting tonight-queer little acronym that stands for Parents In Progress. We met up with friends we'd made at our January classes, and also met another couple who live in our town. Their homestudy went to Korea in December so they're a little ahead of us. Nice to hear and talk to others who've been there, done that.
Our s/w was there and we're scheduled for her to come do her home visit on Sunday-yikes! What to expect? I'm glad things are moving ahead though.