Did you miss me?
Ok, I’m totally loving LJ! I can’t help me, I’m sorry. I love being able to vent about annoying customers without fear of them finding out! LOL
But I’ve decided that I’ll keep both blogs. I’m gonna Be Like Chel 
If you want to read my in-depth, detailed, heartfelt stuff, you’ll have to come to LJ. Otherwise, I’ll post the bare basics here.
Update:
I got my police clearance (why isn’t that on my cross off list?) and DH is getting his today. I forgot to get two copies, annoying. So I’ll have to go back. If we end up adopting two, I’ll need FOUR copies??? I really REALLY want to adopt two related babies. Why is this so unheard of in Vn?
I’m ordering more DS-1350s today, for myself. I’ll need them if we need two dossiers. They are hard to get and take forever to come (not as long as the I-171H though!).
If DH can get it notarized today, we are also sending out our marriage license for state certification. The other things we can all certify here locally on a walk-in basis for $1 each! WOOT!
That’s all! I need some reccs for Toddler Adoption books. I am going to start a lifebook this week (scrapbooking it myself).
Oh toddler adoption reminds me….my agency said that they are encouraging two infant adoptions instead of infant-toddler or sibling groups. It seems like an availability thing. I thought there would be TONS of toddlers available since the shut down. I would LOVE twins, that was our first preference, actually. Unrelated same-age babies would be similar, right? But is that just stupid? Never mind it would cost twice as much on the Vn end of things if they aren’t related….. 
Confused, as usual 
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:59 am
That’s what my agency said to me… they we’re seeing many toddlers available. I’m thinking, what the hell happened to the kids that were born during the 3 years that the country was closed??? Where are they???
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:59 am
opps. I meant they’re NOT seeing many toddlers available.
March 2nd, 2006 at 12:17 pm
WTF?!?!? This makes no sense! Is it because other countries were adopting during that time? Seriously I HOPE so. The idea of toddlers sitting in orphanges alone for all these years (I have a son who is the exact age of the shut down so I know how much these children have missed) and now they are available but no one wants them because they aren’t babies - it makes me sick. I hope they have long since found happy homes.
March 2nd, 2006 at 8:11 pm
I don’t understand this lack-of-toddlers thing at all. A friend of mine worked in a VN orphanage over the summer and there were LOTS of kids age 2-5 waiting for adoptions to re-open. And I know Holt has lots of older kids too. It makes me wonder if maybe some orphanages are geared more to what they think adopters want… so they only take/keep babies????