So, I Had A Mini Freakout

This morning, we had a meeting to do even more paperwork.  This time we were preparing for the process at the US Consulate.  We had to fill our forms on behalf of Gracie, and then more forms for us.

I had a slight (but silent) freakout at the meeting.

Part of the “paper chase” was the paperwork to lead up to being able to submit the I-600A form (foreign orphan petition) so we can get fingerprinted and get the I-797C document (foreign orphan approval) back.  Our original I-797C expired (they are good for 15 months), so we had to redo our home study in late 2006 / early 2007, re-sumbit an I-600A, get re-fingerprinted at the INS, and then get another I-797C.  That all went (mostly) well.

Angela came down to the meeting with Gracie, but she started to have a meltdown, so she went up for a nap.  I continued on with the paperwork.  While we were filling out forms, there was a question about “major life changes” after the I-797C approval.  Changing jobs is considered a major life change.  I am still having a bit of brain trouble with the 2007 to 2008 transition, and thought that Angela had started at D4 after this.  This would have meant that we would have had to have an addendum to the homestudy that we submitted with the last I-600A.

So, after the meeting I rush back up to the room and ask Angela about the addendum.  At this point my stress-induced asthma is starting to kick in, and I am having a major coughing fit.  She then looks at me with the “you are a dumbass” look and reminds me that the last homestudy reflects the job at D4 (she started in 2006), that we have original copies of the home study that reflect this, and that we are fine.

Needless to say, I am feeling much better now (blogging is cathartic).

Gracie is taking a nap right now, but we think we are going to venture out shopping when she gets up.  I isn’t raining, sleeting, or snowing and it is in the 40s right now and a few of the other families are going to join us.

There is a travel group from AFTH in Guangzhou right now (all of their babies are from that province).  I think they left the day after us.  We just found out that one of the babies has chicken-pox.  Ack.

I still haven’t figured out why the thumbnails and small images aren’t being generated when we upload images.  They were working when we set up the blog, but my hosting provider may have changed something which broke Wordpress / Gallery2 / WPG2.  I have tried, but I won’d be able to fix this until I get home.  There is only so much I can here, and I don’t want to mess things up while we are traveling.