So we are officially in the last trimester of this 'pregnancy' and it is getting very difficult to wait and I feel ready to pop any time now... with excitement that is! :)
The chaotic, hullabaloo of paperwork is stressful and overwhelming, but at least you can be doing something and feel like you are helping move things along!! Now we......
W A I T!!
All of our paperwork is finished and has been reviewed in Ukraine and had the additional changes made and home study finally completed and now we sent off for our last piece of approval.. our USCIS which is our immigration approval to bring a foreign born child to the U.S. should be another 3 weeks or so on that and then ready to get that stack of papers sent to Ukraine!! What a day :) I have a feeling that the wait for them to process and issue us a travel date will be the longest and most grueling wait yet, but hey we sure aren't going to borrow sorrow from the morrow! :)
Off subject here...
For all my adopting friends... my 'little roo' just woke up and wanted me to read him a story and he picked one of his(and mine) favorite stories, Little Golden Book "A Blessing From Above". If you haven't read it yet make a special effort to get it and read it, it's awesome! Finally after 3 years of reading it I can make it through without choking up :)
Many of you have asked lately about the status of adoptions in Ukraine because of the unrest. As of now it is still all going fine and adoptions have not been affected, maybe some of the processing in country has taken a little longer, but still moving along. There has been a temporary hold on adoptions out of two of the eastern regions where the unrest is the worse, but unless you hosted a child and are trying to adopt a specific child and he/she happens to be from one of those two regions one should be fine.
Of course anything can happen between now and when we travel, but we are very hopeful at this time that we will not have any delays!
I know this is not a very juicy, news laden post, but I also know if I told you all the details of this part of the process you wouldn't even get to the end of the post :) Unless of course you happen to be adopting from Ukraine and our scouring each and every Ukraine adoption blog out there starved for any and all little tidbit of information to make this whole rollercoaster ride seem a little more real and try to believe that one day yes one day in this lifetime even that it may just possibly come to fruition for YOU!! ;)) Thanks to all my dear friends that take the time to write all the juicy details:) I'm so glad that some of my more prolific writing friends are ahead of us on this journey so we can read and hear ALL about it! That was just for you Kristin:)
Till next time and hopefully that won't be very long!!!
