Blessed to use paper plates!

This day we will have about 20 people in dining table enjoying the bounty of our blessings! Needless to say, I do not have enough fancy plate settings to accommodate this. Therefore, we are using PAPER PLATES!!!! Wooooohoooo!!! What a great blessing that we have so many people in our lives to celebrate Thanksgiving with that we have to bust out paper products!!! God is awesome!!! We are thankful for so many provisions that the Lord has given us. One of them, our daughter, who is waiting to come home. It is with bittersweetness that we miss her so much today, and very much wishing she was her with us, instead of an ocean away. But, we also know that this is the last Thanksgiving we would spend without her. This time around next year, we are hoping that she can be enjoying the blessing of paper plates with us. Happy Blessed Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Approved!

Music to my ears!!! It's official, we got our i800A approval today!!!! I'm one step closer to my little girl!!! My husband immediately went to the UPS office closest to our home, and sent the waiting i800 paperwork to USCIS today!!!!! It is scheduled to arrive early Tuesday AM!!!! I hope it goes without a hitch!!! I wonder if officer Sobe will still be our worker? Hmmm...

Officer Sobe said so!

This morning, I called USCIS...I just had a restlessness in me that's been brewing and today was the day, I finally picked up the phone (previously, I was communicating w/ them through e-mail). I was transfered to officer Sobe early this morning, but he was not at his desk. I left him a message to please call me back for an update on our case. By lunchtime, he hasn't called. So, I picked up the phone again and asked to speak to him at about 12:30pm. He was very kind and said, he had our I800A application at his desk, right now and was about to approve it. I said, "oh, don't let me stop you, I'll HOLD"!!!! LOL!!! A long pause followed and he said, "Okay then"! And just like that, our I800A is approved!!! Hopefully, the "official" letter comes in the mail this week and we can get our I800 application in the mail before the weekend! Then...more waiting!!!! Thank you so much everyone, for being so encouraging!!!

Food for thought...Officer Sobe said, I can wait until the official letter comes in the mail or I can mail the I800 now and by the time it gets there, it would already be in the system. Thoughts??? I'm so paranoid of skipping steps, I don't want to do anything "wrong" at this point in the game! But hey, Officer Sobe said so!!!

Patience

I need some...

That's all there is to say today.

Another Meltdown

is certainly brewing! Still no word on our I800A approval. I thought the wait before the match was unbearable...I never expected that the wait after the match is even more intense!!!

Meltdown!!!

It's 1:04am and I just woke up from a 5 hour crash...eerrr nap, I mean! I had a meltdown earlier this evening, I'm just sayin'...

CAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, let's get the bad news out of the way and be done with it! This evening, my husband and I are finalizing our I864A and I864 to send to our agency, so that they can forward them to ICAB. We crossed every T and dotted all of the I's. Got 3 years worth of tax returns and W-2's for each of us. Proofread a gazillion time before noticing that the instruction says to type answers in CAPITAL letters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really???????????? Really??????????????? Really?????????????? I couldn't believe it! A). How did I miss that????? B). WHY is that necessary???????????????? So, I tried to come up with reasons as to why that shouldn't be needed, since, the application is typed and very much legible. I argued with USCIS in my head...but since they didn't have a representative in my living room this evening, I had no choice but to modify both forms!!! Not too difficult since we already had all of the information down, but it sure was tedious and an absolutely poor use of time. We had planned on tackling the I800 this evening with the fee schedule that USCIS is requesting. But instead, I was converting the I864A and I864 to CAPITAL letters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Again I say, REALLLLLLLLLLY????????

Okay, now that that's out of the way...on to the good news!!! As I've posted just recently, we were scheduled to go in for the Biometric fingerprints on 11/12/2010. Well, one very awesome Haley McNabb from the yahoo group informed me that she had some friends who didn't want to wait for their fingerprinting appointments and they "walked in" and were able to do their fingerprints 3 weeks early!!!!! So, today, my husband called the fingerprinting place and asked if we were able to come in should they have any cancellations in the next couple of weeks. They told him that they had some time tomorrow, and if we wanted to come in. He was in shocked and called me right away. Neither one of us could believe that we can go tomorrow instead of wait the 3 weeks, as given to us by USCIS. I called the place back to verify that this is true. The nice officer confirmed this and offered us an appointment at 7:45am TOMORROW!!!!!!! Thank you officer Lewis!!! Thank you Jesus for putting such wonderful souls to help us along during this process!!!!!!

So, I'm going to shut up now...and go work on the I800, which by the way does not specify that it should be in CAPS!!!