1. Fill out questionnaire
2. Send check
3. Fill out big questionnaire
4. Send another check
5. Get interviewed
6. Get fingerprinted twice
7. Write check
8. Apply for visa
9. Write big check
10. Get more fingerprints
11. Get copies of every official certified thing ever written about you or files on your behalf
12. Get your friends to write nice things about you
13. Get them to write more and different nice things about you
14. Wait forever for the INS to figure out you aren't a terrorist training camp for toddlers
15. Send another check with your completed file you've copied 9 times b/c yo want to be sure
16. Send everything to the agency and hope that this is NOT the one package they lose today
17. Wait
18. Wait some more
19. Cruise the boards to find out who's getting referrals
20. Worry that maybe you picked the wrong agency
21. Wait some more
22. Get referral!
23. Send last check
24. Wait
25. Wait
26. Check prices for airline tickets
27. Get shots
28. Check passports
29. Check on visas
30. Wait
31. Get a court date!
32. Worry you won't pass court
33. Blame everyone and everything for not passing court
34. Panic
35. Pass court(or not, skip back to 32)
36. Panic some more
37. Finish the kids's room
38. Buy more toys
39. Panic some more
40. Wait
41. Get second round of shots
42. wonder shy there are pages of things you MUST pack for a 10 day trip
43. Wonder if ANYONE ever packed that much
44. Wonder how anyone did all this and still brought things over to donate
45. Meet your child. Joy mixed with panic
46. More bureaucracy
47. Travel back to USA with a child that thinks he been kidnapped
48. Kick yourself for not test installing the car seat before you left
49. Home. Sleep. Panic
50. Read your child his first bedtime story (that he still can't really understand b/c he doesn't understand english)
51. Realize that is was all worth it
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