Since I missed Favorite Photo Friday last week, I’m posting a picture of Bowie (our Chiweenie) smelling a daffodil. I just love this picture! I think he was investigating to see if it was edible.

We finally got our updated home study today. Off it goes tomorrow to the USCIS. Here’s hoping they don’t sit on it forever. I sent our birth certificates and marriage certificate off to the California Secretary of State for certification yesterday. The only birth certificate I have is a certified copy from 1982. Hopefully, they’ll still certify it. If not, I’m going to have to wait for a current certified copy to come from California’s Office of Vital Records. The current processing time is 12 weeks (average). That request got sent off yesterday as well (just in case). I’ll be beyond bummed out if I have to wait that long.

We have all of our other documents required for the dossier. We just have to have some of the documents notarized. Then it’s off to the County courthouses to get them certified. I have to go to four different counties. I’m not sure when I’m going to find the time to do all this. There just aren’t enough hours in the day! I will say I’m feeling much better about this whole dossier thing. I went from being panic-stricken to actually feeling like I have a handle on it. It’s almost done! Now if the State of California and the USCIS will just cooperate, I’ll be a happy camper AND we might just get on the waiting list close to my predicted time of early May. Wishful thinking, I know. Owen keeps telling me to relax…it will all happen when it’s supposed to happen. I know this but I have a real hard time with things I can’t control. Control freak? Who me?