Woo Hooo

I797 (wait while I turn to read the rest of it) Notice of Action has arrived. The notice type is Notice of Provisional Approval. I contacted our agency to see if this was just another piece of wasted paper by the USCIS, but she said this is the one. We are approved! OK, I will grant you that there seemed to be little doubt of that happening, but still, one more step down. Next will be our Article 5, then our Travel Approval and once we get our Consulate Appointment, we can make travel arrangements-whoosh. I am now exhausted. I am sure it has nothing with my strep throat or our solid week of little sleep due to a series of unfortunate events.

In other good news, we found an Ikea sofa sleeper on Craiglist several weeks ago. It fits perfectly into the playroom and hopefully will be a good place for guests to sleep. We will find out when Eric's parents visit us in a few weeks. The nice couple selling it were from Germany and had finished their two year stint here. I jokingly asked if they had anything else they would like to sell. We now have two of the Malm dressers in white, and a very lovely armoire. All in great condition and for a fraction of the cost at Ikea. Time to get cracking and to get this house in order!

As for travel to China, our coordinator thinks it will be two months to our TA and then we will travel 3 weeks later. This is still keeping in the window of end of July/early August. The weather here has been hot and humid and I think it has been so to prepare us for our trip :)

Thank you to all of you who are here for our journey. I am still waiting to switch over the blog I have going to our new Baby Jelly Bean site, and you will see that here first.

Hugs to all of you!