I mailed our application to our agency on Tuesday. I received a call from them today verifying a few questions (do we really want two biological siblings? no infants? are we physically & mentally healthy?)

One thing that came up was the length of our marriage. Again, the agency said that Russia prefers two years of marriage at the time of adoption. (Doesn't this process usually take a year?) We've got one... but we've been together since Feb 2003 and living together since Aug 2004. The agency thought that this would be OK, and we would stress our two year living situation in the home study.

So we must have passed because they are now sending us the homestudy paperwork. When we get this we are supposed to call the office and talk to someone about filling in everything. We'll also send back a consent form, and when that is received... we'll be assigned a social worker.

Let the games begin!