In Process

First, I must say that this morning we were blessed to see a beautiful rainbow!  I know, that doesn't sound like something so special because they happen "all the time", right?  Well, for some reason, not in Germany.  I often joke that God doesn't love Germany because despite the perfect weather conditions for rainbows, they just don't happen.  This morning was the second one we've seen while living here.  It's been 2 and a half years!  2 rainbows!  That's just not right.  But, the 2 we have seen have been the biggest, brightest rainbows imaginable so I guess that kind of makes up for their rarity.  The one this morning also had the distinction of being the closest rainbow I have ever seen.  From our house, we could see both ends.  One end landed on the Autobahn visible from our house.  The other end landed over the city.  There are some trees that block the exact place it "landed", but it was the closest part of the city just past those trees.  I always thought rainbows made complete circles far away and they only looked like the landed on the horizon, but today's rainbow proved that wrong.  It clearly landed in specific places!  I took plenty of pictures to prove I wasn't just bleary-eyed!  Anyways, all that to say that the day started off on an amazing note, but it was about to get even better!!

When I got back from dropping D & L off at their respective schools, I checked my email for a bit.  I was expecting mostly the usual - facebook notifications, pinterest notifications, and a few of the emails I subscribe to.  Those never fail to disappoint me.  However, I found an unexpected surprise.  Our agency had sent us an email.  The first words were "Great news!"  Sweet!!  Crescent Moon changed our status from "To Be Processed" to "In Process".  Now, I'm not exactly sure what that really means.  But, it's obviously "great news", so I'll take it!!  The email went on to say that we should go ahead and start filling out our I800 and email a copy for the agency to review before we actually send it in.  That's our next step, so we're moving very quickly now!!  She also said we should be seeing our Letter of Acceptance within the next 30 days.  We were told that could take 3 months, so something is actually going QUICKER than expected!  With everything I had read on blogs and various sites, it looked like Crescent Moon was about as efficient as a penguin trying to run a marathon, but maybe we have found a special grace with them.  God is good!!

Hopefully once we receive our actual LOA, the agency will be able to give us a better estimate of when we will be able to travel.  I will continue to keep you posted.  :-)