Pinky Promise

In light of the recent events I have done a lot of pondering. My heart goes out to those who died on the airplane. What a horrible tragedy. I hope all of their families are able to find peace in the midst of such a sad time.

My heart also goes out to that little Russian boy. He had no control over how he was brought up in Russia, he did not ask to be adopted, and I am sure he did not ask to be sent back to Russia. How could he....he was only 7. This story breaks my heart on so many levels. Not only for him, but for all of those who are trying to adopt from Russia. There are so many kids who need good homes and so many good people to adopt them, it is unfortunate that this lady's actions will slow down the process. As I think about her, I keeping asking "why didn't she talk to anyone about what was going on?"

The pinky promise-I know it will be virtual, but I promise to be there for all of my adopting friends! This support group has been amazing and I can't imagine how this process would be with everyone. The story above just shows how important a support group is after the adoption is complete. I know life gets crazy once you get home, but I would love it if we could "pinky promise" to be there for one another even after we bring our little ones homes!

P.S. I love the fact that those of you who are already home with your children, take the time to read and comment on my blog.....and I am sure the others who are in the process would agree. It means more than you know!!!!

You are not going to believe this......

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We can hardly believe this oursleves......we are going to meet our two beautiful little girls next week. We couldn't be more excited and can't wait to meet them. Life has all of the sudden become crazy, so much to do before we leave!

Life is good......

It has been while since we have posted, so I thought it was a good time for an update! Our dossier has been in Poland for about a month now. I can't believe it is finally there. I was actually worried about this part driving us crazy, not knowing when a referral would come.....would it take a month or two or a year. But actually it is very nice knowing it is in Poland now and our time will come when it is suppose to. In the mean time we are just keeping busy with life, enjoying some signs of spring, and planning for this next adventure in life!

I-797 made it through the big snow storm of 2010!

We are so excited as our I-797 (USCIS) approval notice made it today in spite of the 2010 snowstorm (Ramie had a snow day today...as this is rare in the South!) We are actually in shock as we thought it would take closer to 3 months. We even had a minor glitch with the homestudy, (we received the dreaded pink slip) but it was taken care of by our agency within days. Our fingerprint appointment last week was very uneventful, but nice to get out of the way! When our agency congratulated us on facebook for being approved we held off celebrating until we received the official form today. We plan to get this on its way to be apostilled as soon as possible. We also fedex'd 28 documents to the South Carolina Secretary of State to be apostilled today. I love days like this when something exciting happens....it makes the whole thing feel real!

Fingerprint appointment

Hoping our fingerprint appointment from the USCIS would come this week, we ran to the mailbox each day. Well....it came on Saturday! We are not only excited to check this task off, we are so thankful because it fell between two very important meetings for Vito. He will fly home on the 26th from Florida, we will go to the appointment on the 27th and he will head to Asheville right after for a couple of days. We also had 29 documents notarized over the weekend....thank you Nancy! After our agency checks over all of the documents we will send them to be apostilled.

Every Christmas we exchange ornaments. This year we exchanged Polish eggs we found at the Polish festival! Thought we would share!