When, When, When..................................

I have been getting so many questions as to when??? When will you be traveling to Russia, when will you bring your child(ren) home?

The only answer that I can give is it will be a while. There are several steps that we have to complete before we go to Russia. So I thought I would provide a little snippet as to how this process is going to work, or at least our understanding.

- * Initial application- Which has been completed.

- * Parenting classes- Currently in the process of completing these.

- * Home study- There is a ton of paperwork that is entailed in this. Including but not limited to, medical exams, psychological exams, auto biographies, and having a social worker coming to visiting our home to deem it fit. (This is also something we are praying for. We are currently in search of a home as our lease will be up in just a few short months)

- * Documents go off to Russia….. And we wait……… Then we wait some more……

- * We are hoping that our referral will comes in 10-12 months (that is the current average wait time)

- * Then we get our first travel date. We will spend 4-5 days in Russia meeting and bonding with our child(ren). We then come home (something I cannot fathom in leaving without her).

- * We then wait 2-4 months for our final court date. That is where we go for three weeks and bring our little one home.

So as you can see we have a good bit to do before we complete our family. There will be a ton of paper work (Hence someone saying we are paper pregnant) and a lot of waiting.

I have also mentioned children…. There is a possibility that we may be bringing home twins. Crazy we know, we had to fill out our referral and put either a little girl or a set of twins.

As I stated above, we are currently in search of a home. We feel that God is leading us to purchase and settle down for a little bit. Please be in prayer about that. Along with just prayer for our child(ren) as well. For protection for her or them, the people taking care of her (them) as she (they) waits to become part of our family.

Much love- J