Received a call from Regina from our adoption agency yesterday. Our tentative date for travel is November 22, 2008. We will receive a Letter of Invitation with the secured date in the next week. Our facilitator in Kazakhstan is working really hard to organize our visit and make all the arrangements. She is currently working with another family and when they are settled in she will devote her time to making our first visit happen.
Our families are looking forward to caring for Shawn while we are gone and there are suitcases getting packed. One small paperwork glitch and Mike and I will drive to our capital-Austin, next week and obtain that.
We are planning on around 21 days for the first trip, then home for the holidays and in a perfect adoption, back for court. After court has granted us the adoption, there is a 14 day period where anyone (us, the court, the child's birth family etc.) can change their minds. If all goes well, we will return for our third and final stay.
I gave birth to my daughter Lauren 23 years ago. Someone commented to me, that she had "finally arrived", as I had lost previous pregnancies.
Our son Shawn was adopted 3 years ago. A caregiver at the baby house told us, they had told Shawn (Adilet) that his family had "finally arrived", when we drove up to the orphanage.
When we went to adopt Shawn, a little boy was just down the hall who was 7 months old at that time. That little boy was the child we are adopting.
I cannot wait to say "finally".
Thank you friends and family for your love and support.
Keep praying that the Kazakhstan government will look favorably on our request to adopt.
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