Slowly Moving Towards Home

I'm sorry that I didn't post yesterday. We didn't do very much during the day, as we decided to stay "home" and wait for some news about our adoption process. We found out early yesterday morning that our contact here was going to be calling the courts to see where our case stood. So, we didn't want to miss any phone calls or visits with new information, so that's why we stayed here. After waiting all day to get some info, we finally got some information last night at dinner. Our contact came to the hotel and told us that we are in the final 10 days for the adoption process. That means 10 BUSINESS days. Basically that means that the judge has up to 10 business days to sign our "sentencia". The judge can take all 10 days, or he can do it in less. It's just luck on how that works. Once the judge signs the sentencia, then I go to the courts and review the papers and then I sign it. Once that is complete, then we spend the next several days getting several documents in order to be able to leave the country with Isabella. These include: her birth certificate, passport photos, doctor visit at the U.S. Embassy, and getting her Visa to travel. All of these items take some time to do, so we won't be able to come home right after the sentencia. On average from what I have seen lately, it looks like it is taking people almost a week to get these done, since the U.S. Embassy doesn't do Visas on Fridays. So, you lose one business day for that. But having said all that, we are moving in the right direction and it leads us to believe (and feel pretty comfortable) that we will be home for the holidays!!! :)

So, now, we just sit and wait some more. Right now Isabella is waiting patiently as she takes a nap, and Nana is waiting patiently downstairs enjoying the quiet and reading a book.

I know there are not any pictures in this post, but I wanted to make sure to pass along the info. But I will take some pics of Isabella later and post them on here for you... because I know you really don't want to see me. :)

To those of you that are writing the comments on the blog and sending me emails with words of encouragement....thank you. It means alot. Although, we really do want to get home, we are really trying our best to enjoy our time here. After all, this is the country that our children were born in, and it will always be a very special place to us.

Lots of love to you all. I'll write more later.
Buenas Tardes from Colombia.