Dossier on route to Ethiopia!!!

Well, second time's the charm in our case. The paperwork debacle has been sorted out. IL secretary of state fixed and turned around a paperwork in a timely fashion. Our Washington DC courier then got them authenticated by the state department in DC. And then this time when our paper work was brought to the Ethiopian Embassy it was accepted rather than rejected! YAY! Oh and P.S. it only set us back an extra 120 dollars which was not near as bad as they said it was going to be! So... I was told it was being sent to Ethiopia Today. Once it is there it will be translated into Amharic, and then registered with the MOWA. MOWA reviews our documents for completeness and creates a dossier about us. The Claims and Authentication Section of the Protocol Office at the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Addis Ababa authenticates the dossier and returns it to the Adoption Team in the Children and Youth Affairs Office (CYAO) for approval. Once all those steps are done we just wait for a child to be matched to us! I've discovered that in this adoption process the key to getting through it all is to celebrate every small victory. So today I am thanking the Lord that our hiccup in our paperwork is over, and we are one step closer to knowing who little Sophie is. Hang in there little one, we'll be there soon!!!