Documents En Route to Kras

Our updated paperwork should be en route to Russia today! Our agency is sending it with a family who is traveling to Kras this weekend to meet their little boy. Hopefully we'll hear that we've been officially registered very soon.

Thanks so much to Armando who actually carried our documents to the Secretary of State's office in Sacramento for apostilles (authentication seals). That saved us at least 3 weeks.

We'll keep you updated.

Makin' a Move

After 17 months of waiting for news from Voronezh, it's time to make a move.
Just a little move... to Siberia!

We are now taking steps to have our dossier (paperwork) registered in a different region. It is called KRASNOYARSK and it's actually in Siberia. Don't worry, it was only 20 degrees there last week, I checked. I'm not quite sure what 20 degrees feels like. I usually break out the sweatshirts when it hits 79!

At first we were disappointed. I'd sort of become attached to Voronezh. I can even pronounce it with a cool accent on the r and zh. However, our agency is very optimistic that this will speed things up. There's just one catch... we have a few new documents to complete! That's no surprise, though. They say adopting families have a "paper pregnancy." There certainly is some labor involved.

There have been several families with our agency that traveled to Kras in Sept. and Oct. They've all had good things to say about the trip, the people, and the orphanages. We expect to have our new paperwork in by the end of the month. Keep your fingers crossed!

We're Right on Schedule

Have a Heart

"Hey! I thought that Voronezh Adoption Official was supposed to be back from vacation in September!?"

Yeah. Me too.

So, I found out today, that apparently the man... no, let me rephrase that... the one and only man... who gives out the referrals in Voronezh is out sick. Diagnosis... heart problems. I have no idea what that means. The whole process has actually felt a bit heartLESS at times. Who knew those adoption guys in Russia were walking around with real, live, at least partially beating hearts!?

I know my blog has been a little sleepy lately. I'll try to do better. Let's see. If there's no adoption news, I could post...

my grocery list... (must remember salad dressing this time!)
soccer scores... (APU women's soccer is ranked #2 in the nation...that's just good coaching)
weekend agenda... (the Omegas are coming for a Disneyland visit!)
Cubs schedule... (gotta win 3 in a row... otherwise, see ya in 2008)

Have a great weekend all. If you think about it, say a prayer for our waiting children.
I've never even met them, but I sure miss them right now.