Friday, October 7, 2011
a very good update
For weeks I've been meaning to update this blog... and I actually had the content of several pretty good posts in my head. But then Gladney went and called us with a referral today and, well, my mind just started spinning and all those ideas for a post just sort of stopped making sense... and so instead, here I am to let you know that today we got to see photos of a beautiful 8 month old girl with enormous brown eyes... and we hope that she can join our family soon!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
rants and raves
Hello Blog (and blog readers - if there still are any left)!!
Given that it's been about one month since my last post -and a busy one too - I have no idea how to even begin writing a post to catch up.... As always seems to be the case, I've got a million thoughts and ideas floating around in my head, but not so much the [insert one: time/ patience/ words/ patience] to get it all out. So bear with me for a short-hand version of an update post, in the form of rants and raves (by the way, I feel like have I done this before, but I do not have the [insert one: time/ patience] to look back to be sure... at the very least, I'm pretty sure I've thought about it).
So here we go:
Rave: (why not start on a high note?)
In the month since I last posted, we've celebrated a number of milestones and events: my birthday, 13 months on the waitlist (now inching towards 14); the 3rd anniversary of the date the Ethiopian courts declared that we were a family....
Rant:
We never thought we'd get to 13 months (not to mention 14 and probably 15) on the waitlist for a referral.
Rave:
The adoption process seems to be slowly settling into a new normal. Things are so different than they were when we adopted Simon... and even from the day in Feb. 2010 when we started the paperwork for adoption round 2, but after a period of a lot of uncertainty and heightened emotions and fears, we finally feel like we can see the end in sight (and maybe even have an idea of when that might be - give or take a few months).
Rant:
Famine in East Africa. And the fact that it does not get the world attention it needs. Please educate yourself. And please help if you can.
Rave:
It's Summer time! Okay, technically this happened longer than one month ago, but it finally feels like Summer. And that is a very good thing!
Rant:
Paperwork revisited. It's happening. Our adoption paperwork is expiring and we have to start redoing things. Already down: doctors appointments and CIS fingerprints; yet to come: homestudy visit (and all accompanying documents), updated CIS approval.... Ugh.
Rave:
Having a three and a half year old. Challenging: yes. But so much fun. The things he says and does are endlessly entertaining - and completely fill my heart.
Rant:
Having a three and a half year old who has more energy than I ever did (e.g. during pre-bed storytime last night, he looked at me, jumped out of bed and said, "I have to dance" and then he did just that). Exhausting!!
ps Rave:
Pictures! I have many from this summer. They are coming. Soon.
Given that it's been about one month since my last post -and a busy one too - I have no idea how to even begin writing a post to catch up.... As always seems to be the case, I've got a million thoughts and ideas floating around in my head, but not so much the [insert one: time/ patience/ words/ patience] to get it all out. So bear with me for a short-hand version of an update post, in the form of rants and raves (by the way, I feel like have I done this before, but I do not have the [insert one: time/ patience] to look back to be sure... at the very least, I'm pretty sure I've thought about it).
So here we go:
Rave: (why not start on a high note?)
In the month since I last posted, we've celebrated a number of milestones and events: my birthday, 13 months on the waitlist (now inching towards 14); the 3rd anniversary of the date the Ethiopian courts declared that we were a family....
Rant:
We never thought we'd get to 13 months (not to mention 14 and probably 15) on the waitlist for a referral.
Rave:
The adoption process seems to be slowly settling into a new normal. Things are so different than they were when we adopted Simon... and even from the day in Feb. 2010 when we started the paperwork for adoption round 2, but after a period of a lot of uncertainty and heightened emotions and fears, we finally feel like we can see the end in sight (and maybe even have an idea of when that might be - give or take a few months).
Rant:
Famine in East Africa. And the fact that it does not get the world attention it needs. Please educate yourself. And please help if you can.
Rave:
It's Summer time! Okay, technically this happened longer than one month ago, but it finally feels like Summer. And that is a very good thing!
Rant:
Paperwork revisited. It's happening. Our adoption paperwork is expiring and we have to start redoing things. Already down: doctors appointments and CIS fingerprints; yet to come: homestudy visit (and all accompanying documents), updated CIS approval.... Ugh.
Rave:
Having a three and a half year old. Challenging: yes. But so much fun. The things he says and does are endlessly entertaining - and completely fill my heart.
Rant:
Having a three and a half year old who has more energy than I ever did (e.g. during pre-bed storytime last night, he looked at me, jumped out of bed and said, "I have to dance" and then he did just that). Exhausting!!
ps Rave:
Pictures! I have many from this summer. They are coming. Soon.
Monday, July 11, 2011
on this day...
...three years ago, we received the greatest call of our lives and opened an email to see this face:
we couldn't take our eyes off of him then... and we still can't today. it's been a wild ride since that afternoon, and we suspect it will be getting even crazier. but this smile will keep us going through it all.
we couldn't take our eyes off of him then... and we still can't today. it's been a wild ride since that afternoon, and we suspect it will be getting even crazier. but this smile will keep us going through it all.
Friday, June 24, 2011
five words
Five words: one year on the waitlist.
Five words we didn't really expect to be writing here... hoped not to be writing. But that is what today marks. One year on the waitlist.
The good news is that things are moving. Slowly, but they are moving, and we are starting to feel like maybe we have an ever-so-slightly better idea of what to expect in terms of timeframes for the next stages of our adoption process.
The bad news is that those timeframes are a lot (A LOT) longer than we ever anticipated. As in you will probably be reading about our 13 and 14 (but we hope not 15) month anniversaries on the waitlist and keeping your fingers crossed with us in the new year (yes, the 2012 new year) for a successful court date. Not exactly what we had planned, but so it goes.
It sometimes amazes me how crazy and emotional (and frustrated and drained) we often got during Simon's adoption process (just look through guzo posts from the first half of 2008 - I haven't counted, but I'm pretty sure there are a zillion references to the emotional roller coaster ride that is international adoption). His whole process from start to finish was about 11 months. How ridiculously short that seems in hindsight! We are now about a year and a half into this adoption process - a year of that just waiting for a referral. With probably a good 7 or 8 months or so to go. And yet somehow we actually feel less crazy this time around. Guess there is something to be said for experience, huh?
So that's it.
One year waiting.
And now we wait some more.
Five words we didn't really expect to be writing here... hoped not to be writing. But that is what today marks. One year on the waitlist.
The good news is that things are moving. Slowly, but they are moving, and we are starting to feel like maybe we have an ever-so-slightly better idea of what to expect in terms of timeframes for the next stages of our adoption process.
The bad news is that those timeframes are a lot (A LOT) longer than we ever anticipated. As in you will probably be reading about our 13 and 14 (but we hope not 15) month anniversaries on the waitlist and keeping your fingers crossed with us in the new year (yes, the 2012 new year) for a successful court date. Not exactly what we had planned, but so it goes.
It sometimes amazes me how crazy and emotional (and frustrated and drained) we often got during Simon's adoption process (just look through guzo posts from the first half of 2008 - I haven't counted, but I'm pretty sure there are a zillion references to the emotional roller coaster ride that is international adoption). His whole process from start to finish was about 11 months. How ridiculously short that seems in hindsight! We are now about a year and a half into this adoption process - a year of that just waiting for a referral. With probably a good 7 or 8 months or so to go. And yet somehow we actually feel less crazy this time around. Guess there is something to be said for experience, huh?
So that's it.
One year waiting.
And now we wait some more.
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