We have a court date!!!

Woke up this morning to Good News in our email! We have a court date . . . of August 2nd!!

(I'm not sure how that works with a court system that takes a break from July 31 to September 15. My best guess is that someone within the system decides which few cases really need to go through before and can't wait until after the break and decided that ours was one that should go through now.)

On top of this good news, Toni also said that we got a "good" judge. Earlier in the process she described three typical kinds of judges. One is the "easy" kind who are pleasant to work with and work with you to get things through the legal process efficiently. The second is still pleasant to work with, but feels its their responsibility to find something to have you go back and verify or some additional paperwork that needs to be filed. The last is the type who is difficult to work with every step of the way and seems to feel its their job to make life miserable. (Sounds pretty much like any judicial system, right?)

But she said we got a judge of the first variety! So it looks like we will very likely be the proud parents of a nine year old boy by the time we wake up in the morning next week Friday.

And guess who then will very likely come home yet this summer!!!