Monday, March 13, 2006

The Rush to Wait

Well it has been a week since we signed up with our agency. We ran around getting everything together to be sent to Russia for the wait for a referral. I have no idea when a referral will come in, it could be 2 weeks or 2 months (I pray for 2 weeks). I know from last time around the waiting makes me very impatient. I think I have been doing OK, it has only been a week but it feels a lot longer than that.

In Russia a baby/child must stay on an in country registry for 9 months before they can be adopted internationally, in hopes that a Russian family will adopt them. It is very uncommon for a Russian couple to adopt a child that is not blood related.

I have been doing a lot of research on the Region that our paper work has been sent to and it seems like there will be a lot for us to do. We will not be there very long, the first trip will be 5-7 days and our 2nd 7-10. It is in a mountain region so I am sure it will be beautiful. I know I am not giving out much info on our region or agency but I am scared that our old agency will get to much info and try to sabotage our adoption, that man is evil and I have been told stories about him doing this. I do not know if they are true but after what he did to us it would not surprise me.

Any ways, I hope to be able to post info on a referral soon. My horoscope said I need my passport ready I would be traveling for work, love or both, very strange. I will not be able to post pictures until after our court date, The Russian government does not want their children displayed on the internet. Well enough for now and hopefully we will get our approval from the US government in the next couple of weeks, I have all our paperwork we need for court besides our medical, I will wait to do that until right before we leave because they are only good for 3 months and I wouldn't want to redo them. I pray I can post soon that we have accepted a referral and that we are leaving soon.

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