I am writing this post a day late. However it has been really hard to make it through the last few days. It was ONE year ago yesterday (March 5th) that we received our referral news about Derek. It was ONE year ago TODAY that we received Derek's picture. Seems somedays like an eternity. It has been quite a year since that picture came to us. We have jumped and re-jumped every hurdle you could face in this process. Our journey isn't over yet and we are still hanging on the edge of uncertainty but after the good news of the final signature FINALLY coming through we have a little more hope. Derek's dossier is supposed to go to the DN DOJ on Monday for review and from there to the DIA. Hopefully we will get our letter shortly after that and begin our I600 process. Today I received an email from a family that only had to wait "9 DAYS" for their USCIS approval. WOW...I hope God is that good to us too. The average waits have been 60 -75 days lately so we aren't anticipating any great strides for a few months. We hope to have him home for summer while the girls are on their summer vacation from school and we can all get comfy with one another. Besides we have that really cool Mustang in the basement that he should be able to cruise around in this summer....of course there will be plenty of pictures of that to come. So as we begin facing the 2nd year of waiting for Derek's arrival we will still remain hopeful that he will soon be home to love!!!!