Upcoming Meeting

Our agency informed us that the US officials are traveling this weekend to Moscow for a Tuesday, April 20th meeting. This meeting will be held with many government officials in Russia to determine the future proceedings of adoptions from Russia to the U.S. They may decide to hault adoptions (although we are praying this is NOT the outcome), or change some rules and regulations pre and post adoption.

A little side note as to where we are in our process: 
 We just had all our paperwork that originated in NJ notorized. Greg was going to drive up to Trenton Monday to get everything apostilled (and then pick it up Tuesday morning...a 24 hr. expedited turn-around). We are going to hold off on this step for now. After the meeting on the 20th, there is a chance we will need to sign an additional document...and if that is the case, we would have to make another trip up to Trenton after we complete that document (totally hypothetical as of now...but a possibility). Or, they could temporarily close the doors, so we wouldn't want to have paid $300 for apostilling only to have to re-do later.   SO, we are planning, Lord willing, to have Greg drive up the following Monday/Tuesday (26th &27th) to do this step.

Thank you so much for your prayers. We really do feel them. We are not worrying, and we both have peace that Russia still is the country God is calling us to bring a child home from. We will keep our blog updated with news as we hear from our agency.