Yesterday we recieved the infamous Brown Envelope from the US Foreign Service.
You know, the one that you need to take with you on your adoption trip to China.
My wife opened it and was all excited, and then reality hit when she realized that we probably won't need the contents for a little over a year at least. Just another reminder that it will still be quite some time before we see our little girl.
In fact we still have not even made it out of the review room...
I guess it is another milestone in the process, but with all of the other milestones so far away it just seems like a slap in the face. So we are all set on the US side of things, but in China we still sit in a file that has not been touched other than to make room for more files on the shelf.
In fact at the rate things are going we will be lucky if we even get out of review before our US paperwork expires!!
In the long run I am sure that all of this will be worth it when we bring a little girl home as part of our family, but right now it is very frustrating and depressing.
But at least we have an envelope of paperwork to put away for our trip, when it eventually happens.....
