Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The Last Step

In order to get a court date set in Russia, one of the last things we have to do is to get an evaluation done by a psychologist. We met with a psychologist last Friday, and it went well. We basically just had a conversation so the doctor could get to know us.

As a follow-up, she had to give us personality tests. Brandon took hers on Monday, and I go in tomorrow to take mine. The test consists of over 500 questions, and they are all True/False. Once she gets the results back, she will be able to write up our evaluations and we can send those on to be reviewed and eventually sent to Russia to be translated for the courts. So now the big wait begins as we will no longer have any paperwork to complete on our end.

This has certainly become a much harder wait than we ever could have anticipated. For the first couple weeks, I think the void of missing her was masked a bit by the excitement of our trip to Russia, and our visits with her. But now that the buzz from our first trip has started to subside, our second trip cannot come fast enough. We hope that our paperwork will get to the courts in Russia soon because July and August are apparently big vacation months there, so we hope that doesn't present any further delays to bringing our angel home sooner rather than later.

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