Hello All,

We have an update from our Russian Coordinator. As you know we only call once a month. So Thursday the was already one month since we called last.

After playing phone tag for a day, we finally talked to Danielle. She stated that we are number 3 on the list. The number 2 family in front of us, is asking for a girl <18 months of age only. So we may jump ahead of them, but later in our conversation Danielle revealed me that we may be number 4 inline. What I did not understand was how we went from 3 to 4 in just 15 mins. What she said was that our dossier was submitted the same day as another families and that she cannot tell us who is 3 or 4. So that was annoying, we may be travelling with that same couple, if they are looking to adopt a boy like us.

I then asked if it still looks like we will be traveling for trip one in either late March or early April. Danielles answer was that late March looks more promising, but not to rule out April. So after talking with her for about 2o mins, what we realized is that we moved up 1 maybe 2 spots. Also, we are still figuring to travel in April.

One final note, Danielle stated that the agency is requiring us to carry a minimum of $3000.00 in new $100 bills to Russian on trip one and the same amount for trip two. I told them, I am not comfortable in carrying that much cash. Kind of makes me think like we are conducting a cocaine purchase.

Still no resolution on the FMLA front and our medical benefits fight with our employer.

Thanks for reading and till next time.