Naina's been helping, too

We had a terrific helper. Naina made all the 6 sets of family photos we had to submit, plus an album to send to Krish so he can see us while we wait to meet each other.  Big sis is very excited!!

Getting home and getting going!

Things moved fast, yet slow at the same time, from that day when we accepted the referral. We had to send our home study and dossier to India once we got back in town from our trip.  It was a mad rush - we got home on a Sunday night and Anjali was supposed to drop off the dossier at the agency by noon on Tuesday.  Well...we couln't find it! We thought our agency had kept it, but they swore they gave it back to us. Either way - we need a new one - PRONTO! (btw, our agency would later tell us that they did indeed have it!!)

We spent the next 36 hours recreating the entire 60+ page dossier, including dragging a very ill Amit to the police station for new Police Clearance Letters, and finding a notary to re-do all the notarizations.

Finally it was done and delivered to BAAS on time. But things weren't as smooth as we thought.

The notary commission was expiring at the end of the year, and it was highly unlikely that all the court dates would be done by then. So we had to look for a new notary and get everything redone...again! Add more days...

October 3 comes around - a whole 6 weeks after we got Krish's referral. Finally we had everything in place and it was time to go up to Sacramento to apostille the dossier. We had heard nightmare stories of this taking all day. We braced ourselves and left bright and early at 6am to get there right when they opened at 8am.  Amazingly, we were in and out in 45 minutes!
Finally - *something* in this process went quickly!

Now time our documents were ready to go - for realsies!