My first post!
Hello!
We are on what seems a never ending journy to adopt a child. I won't give all the details at this point as I don't want to bore everyone with my first post, but I will give a little background now. I'll try and fill in the holes later on.
We started this journey in February 2004 when we decided to adopt from Russia. In June I had fallen in love with a picture of a dear little boy named Andrey who was 4 years old. We had hoped and had been told we'd have him home by that Christmas - well that did not happen! To make a long story short, Russia changed many of its adoption laws and we got caught up in lots of political red tape. We eventually switched countries and are now pursuing an unknown child in Kazakhstan.
Our dossier was completed (we thought) and submited to our agency Memorial Day weekend. They had them translated and submittedt to the Kazakhstan Embassy in Washington DC. This is supposed to be a 2 month process but due to sudden changes in the way the dossier is supposed to be assembled we had our documents returned to us to get more apostilles done (I'll explain later). We just got the documents back on Saturday. I hope to get them sent to the state for apostilling later today. Hopefully the state will not lose them AGAIN (again - I'll explain later).
Today I saw our agency has a baby to be born in September that is available for adoption. This would be a domestic adoption which we had originally shyed away from, but it says the mother does not want contact after birth (which is why we had shyed away from domestic adoptions), so we are looking into this. The description / situation sounds too good to be true, but considering it seems like the international thing does not seem to be working, maybe this is the direction we are meant to go. We'll see...what is meant to be will be.
We are on what seems a never ending journy to adopt a child. I won't give all the details at this point as I don't want to bore everyone with my first post, but I will give a little background now. I'll try and fill in the holes later on.
We started this journey in February 2004 when we decided to adopt from Russia. In June I had fallen in love with a picture of a dear little boy named Andrey who was 4 years old. We had hoped and had been told we'd have him home by that Christmas - well that did not happen! To make a long story short, Russia changed many of its adoption laws and we got caught up in lots of political red tape. We eventually switched countries and are now pursuing an unknown child in Kazakhstan.
Our dossier was completed (we thought) and submited to our agency Memorial Day weekend. They had them translated and submittedt to the Kazakhstan Embassy in Washington DC. This is supposed to be a 2 month process but due to sudden changes in the way the dossier is supposed to be assembled we had our documents returned to us to get more apostilles done (I'll explain later). We just got the documents back on Saturday. I hope to get them sent to the state for apostilling later today. Hopefully the state will not lose them AGAIN (again - I'll explain later).
Today I saw our agency has a baby to be born in September that is available for adoption. This would be a domestic adoption which we had originally shyed away from, but it says the mother does not want contact after birth (which is why we had shyed away from domestic adoptions), so we are looking into this. The description / situation sounds too good to be true, but considering it seems like the international thing does not seem to be working, maybe this is the direction we are meant to go. We'll see...what is meant to be will be.
posted by Kim @ 3:15 PM
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