Last piece?

The application Nepal has required is finished! We had to take pictures of the house. I managed to pick up and put away enough Christmas stuff to get some pretty good pictures. With four pets in the house who like to follow me wherever I go, almost every pic has one of them in it. I hope that's okay. Chris said the Nepalese government is going to wonder what kind of zoo we have going on when they see the pictures.

We also had to do to passport style photos. It was kind of a nervous feeling to see our faces at the top of the application. Someone somewhere will pick up that application, see us, and decide to match us with a child.

So now, it is with our agency in Pennsylvania. Our rep has to put it all together with a cover letter, then it's off to Nepal and finally on to the desk of the Ministry. When they re-opened, the Ministry limited applications to ten per agency per year. While I think this is a good thing to keep them from getting too overwhelmed right off the bat, some agencies already have more parents than that ready to go. I hate it for them, but it is possible that Nepal will loosen these limits if things go well. At our agency, we are one of six families in the Nepal program, so this limit has not affected us.

In the meantime, it's back to work for Chris and me. My classes are great so far, but I have a lot of students, so that means lots of work! Also, I STILL haven't taken down my Christmas tree and I have company coming next weekend. It's kind of sad that I'm hoping for a snow day just so I can get my house in order!