Good Morning
Finally, a little progress. We received our fingerprinting appointment date in the mail. We go to Grand Rapids Tuesday, April 29th 9:00 am. Once done with that we wait 2-3 months for our immigration pre-approval to come in. Once that happens we can go to Lansing, get all our documents stamped with the Michigan state stamp (appostilled) then mail our dossier to the Kazakhstan embassy in Washington DC. Meanwhile...
Life continues here. I started planting this weekend. 40 Strawberry roots and 12 asparagus roots are in. Rhubarb is coming in like crazy- Dave saw them when they were just starting and wondered what "those green brains are". Anybody want some or know of some great recipes? Many seeds have been planted in peet and are doing well.
We also purchased 5 fruit trees- 3 cherry, 1 each pear and peach. They go in and out of the barn daily as they acclimate to the weather. The garage is clean, the leaves are raked, mulched and blown into the pines. The patio furniture is starting to come out and the dogs are enjoying laying around in the sun. Kaitlin brought home a baby bunny Friday, a grey and white mini lop she named Georgia. Annie loves to lay by her hutch and watch her. McGee actually demonstrated a very nice point when he took notice of her. A true bird dog at heart. Yesterday Dave cut down the Pussy-willow (sorry mom) and with the help of a friend got the massive stump out as well as another stump in the front yard. It was a good weekend and we have the sore muscles to prove it. Have a wonderful week.

hurry-up and wait

I am keeping my fingers crossed that we will receive our Homestudy in the mail today, so that I can get to the PO before they close and Priority mail our I-600a packet to Detroit so we can wait for the I-171H approval in order to finally send our dossier to the Kaz embassy-- all this hoping the embassy doesn't suspend accepting dossiers again before we can get ours in and approved.
I just read this back to myself and it makes my head spin!