And we wait again...

Well, after a crazy busy week we are happy to report that all of Claire's acceptance documents are signed, sealed and delivered. Dave and I spent MANY hours filling out immigration paperwork again. I honestly cannot wait for the day to arrive that we never have to deal with US immigration again! I think they purposefully make the forms complicated. Anyway, everything we have to do for now is done. So, we wait some more. Over the weekend we created a "to do before Claire arrives" list. It includes things to get ready for her as well as projects around that house that we want to get out of the way since we know we'll have our hands full at first. Today during Jack's nap I am tackling Claire's closet since it has become the dumping ground in our house during the last year since Jack moved across the hall.

We are also working on a care/thank you package to send to Claire and her foster family. Picking stuff out for Claire was the easy part. I've been dying to go girly shopping so that part was fun. Buying stuff for the foster family, on the other hand, was a challenge. All we know is that the mother is 63 and that her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson live with her. We roamed around the mall yesterday trying to be inspired. It is hard to buy a gift to say thank you to someone for taking care of your child! In the end we got a selection of things that we hope they will like. We have also included a photo album for Claire so she can start to get used to our faces :) We have written a letter to the family also and Dave is having someone at work translate it into Korean for us today. It is handy that he works at such a multi-national company. He was able to send an email out to the Asia club at work and someone responded immediately who is Korean and said he'd be happy to translate for us!