Waiting for THE call....

The Guatemalan adoption world has it's own language. Only those who have suffered/struggled through the process fully understand this language. On top of the lingo, almost everything gets shortened to letters. PA is pre-approval. FC is family court. But the biggest and baddest of them all is PGN. PGN is the large government office that oversees all adoptions in Guatemala. It is headed up by a man named Barrios, who happens to be very anti-American and anti-adoption. When he took over about a year ago the formerly smooth adoption process that took 4-6 months turned in to a tortorous journey of many many more months. Ahren's case is stuck in PGN while they try and correct his birth certificate. It has been rejected 5 times already with each time them asking for more documentation. The latest was an additional copy of a document they already had in the file. Peri Brynn's case is also in PGN but at the final stage of her adoption. Once the case gets the signature of Senor Barrios she will be legally our daughter. This is called an OUT. (You get OUT of PGN) So, PBJ's case was submitted to PGN in January (unsure of the date so I randomly chose the last Monday of the month for counting purposes) which means her case has been in PGN for 43 days. So far we have not had any 'previos' or knock-outs for corrections in the file. Now almost every file gets at least one previo, often for stupid and made-up reasons. But, some do go through without one. If we were going to get one we should have already had it by now. If this is really the case (I don't believe anything anymore!) then the average length of time from submission to out right now is 50 days. We are within 1 week of that. Any day now we could get THE call. The call telling us we are out. We would not be picking her up until April though, because there is still more to the process that has to happen and the Easter holidays will delay many things. But one step at a time. We are just hoping and praying for that one phone call. Come on phone, ring!