OK, I did it! I painted a bedroom PINK! It was either guest room neutral or PINK and PINK won. This is a big step, because really, we have bought and prepared very little. Part out of fear that it would be difficult having "stuff" and no little girl and part afraid I would jinks the whole thing. I don't believe in jinksing, but just in case... Well, it was time to paint the bedrooms in the new house. Carpet is waiting to be installed so we had to do it. We chose a beautiful, soothing gray for our room. Riley went with metallic silver (yeah, a bit crazy). Blaine has a nice khaki green. And then there is the "other room". Blaine said to me, " I guess you are sure we are going to get her if you painted her room PINK". I told him, not sure, but feeling pretty good about it.
PINK seems like a hopeful color.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Duct Tape to the Rescue
It has been awhile since I posted. In my last post I did not know what we were going to do about our RFE. Since then we have hired an attorney and a Nepali investigative reporter who have been working on our behalf. Our RFE rebuttal was sent and received at USCIS on Jan 24th. Some families have received approvals for visas since submitting their rebuttals, so this has been good news. In a conference call in December, the US Embassy reported that they had completed all of their investigations and that they found NO FRAUD. However, we, and most other pipeline families, are still left to hire teams to prove there is no fraud. Some families have put together a petition to congress. Please read it and consider signing it. There is also a blog where you can see the many children and families waiting to come home. We cannot post our little girl’s picture since we have not legally adopted her. Can’t wait to share pictures we have of her with all of our friends and family. Please keep us and our little girl in your prayers.
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