Pre-Approval. Well we finally have it. This step has really been stressing me out because it too so LONG it seems. It seems our US Embassy in Guatemala just didn't have time to send me the e-mail I've been desperately waiting for. I kept telling my agency that I had a gut feeling that the pre-approval was issued and we just were not notified for some reason. They thought I was being a crazy waiting parent. So I finally got mad and called my congressman H. Brown this morning and told him my story. His very sweet secretary offered to contact the US Embassy on our behalf since the Embassy has to respond to congressional request within 48 hours. This evening we received the email with the good news that our pre-approval was issued on March 27th.

We are very excited and are now hoping that we will somehow make it into PGN before they close for Easter break. This is the last stage of court and it usually takes 3 weeks or so. When we exit this stage of court Isabella will be %100 legally ours. There will be about 3 more weeks of paperwork and then we will go to Guatemala to bring her home.

My mother and I finished her nursery today and I will post photos of that very soon. Got to go since I am very tired from decorating. More later...