Feels Good to Have Approval

Well approval feels good in general but it's really great when we received notice from our lawyer in Colombia that our dossier and application had been approved by ICBF in only 2 days! This typically takes anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks so we were not at all expecting this to be done so quickly at all.

So those of you keeping score, our translations were completed a week early and now our application was approved in record time. This means that any concept of a timeline that we had been thinking of is now completely meaningless. We still don't know what the wait will look like from here at all, but we do know that our file is either in transit to the regional office where we will be adopting from or is already there by now.

We are now scrambling a little bit to make sure that our "must get done" list is in good shape but it is the best possible scramble we've ever been a part of. Each crazy step is filled with both some anxiety and great excitement that we are just that much closer to being united with our child.