Along with Summer comes some more spare time which is very nice. One of the things I always wish I had more time for is playing the piano. I'm not great, but it's something I enjoy. Yesterday I sat down at the piano and played for a while. I grabbed one of my Disney songbooks, and came across this song, "Somone's Waiting For You" which was on the Rescuers. I remember watching this movie when I was young, and loving this song, but I hadn't remembered it or thought of it in years. As I began to play it, I caught sight of the words, and couldn't help but fill up with tears. I realized that these are some of the thoughts I am thinking right now for our child: "Have faith little one...someone's waiting to love you."
So, if you have a few minutes, enjoy this link and clip from the movie...you might want to grab a tissue if you're like me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyHX71Z6M7s
How often we pray and think these words: We are waiting for you, and loving you so much, sweet baby! We can't wait to meet you and bring you home! We love you!
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
One Month into our Wait
Well, today marks one month since our Dossier was Moscow bound. We have been busy since then- working on documents for our second dossier, and just busy with life!
We are excitedly following two families via blogs who are in-country right now, meeting their child. While at times, "the process" can make you feel like you are not really a few months (or weeks) away from meeting your child, reading their entries makes it feel real again.
Our agency talked to their Russian contact yesterday just to check in on our status. We are "on his radar" which is really good to hear. We also heard that July and August are big, long, vacation months for many Russian court officials, so it may be possible that we won't hear anything until September or October...but, we are supposed to still be as ready and as prepared as possible for a call in the next two months.
Well, time to get back to the paper chase...FBI fingerprinting letters, NJ State Medical Board letters, and more! Of course, we will continue to keep you posted!
We are excitedly following two families via blogs who are in-country right now, meeting their child. While at times, "the process" can make you feel like you are not really a few months (or weeks) away from meeting your child, reading their entries makes it feel real again.
Our agency talked to their Russian contact yesterday just to check in on our status. We are "on his radar" which is really good to hear. We also heard that July and August are big, long, vacation months for many Russian court officials, so it may be possible that we won't hear anything until September or October...but, we are supposed to still be as ready and as prepared as possible for a call in the next two months.
Well, time to get back to the paper chase...FBI fingerprinting letters, NJ State Medical Board letters, and more! Of course, we will continue to keep you posted!
Friday, June 4, 2010
Fingerprinting Done, and reality setting in...
Our appointment for our FBI fingerprinting was at 8AM. We were out the door by 8:10. Amazing! So, we headed to breakfast, and then to Babies R Us. It was the first time I have ever walked into that store for us. I have been in there countless times for my friends, but this time was special. We were excited to start looking for things that we will need, and cracked ourselves up at how much we will have to learn: 5 minutes to fold a stroller? Oh my!
I think for me, anyway, (Greg usually doesn't think this much into things like I tend to) I have finally let go of any worries, and fears that this somehow will "not happen." I am finally into fulltime "We're going to be parents!" mode. And, it's a wonderful place to be.
On that note, we are still at least 3-4 weeks from receiving a call from our agency. Whenever they do call, it will either be with a referral (which for those of you who may not know, a referral is basically getting to know who your child is...their age/sex/medical info/pictures), or we will get a call to let us know how many months of waiting for a referral we will continue to have. I am trying not to get my hopes up, but I now know of two families who were DTR in early April that already have their referrals, and are heading to Russia. How encouraging! I am honestly not rushing this part (at least not today), and enjoying this preparing for baby stage...thinking about how to do the room, what jogging stroller I want (which is a whole post in and of itself...do you know they have MP3 Speaker hookups on these strollers now?!?)
We will continue to keep you posted!
I think for me, anyway, (Greg usually doesn't think this much into things like I tend to) I have finally let go of any worries, and fears that this somehow will "not happen." I am finally into fulltime "We're going to be parents!" mode. And, it's a wonderful place to be.
On that note, we are still at least 3-4 weeks from receiving a call from our agency. Whenever they do call, it will either be with a referral (which for those of you who may not know, a referral is basically getting to know who your child is...their age/sex/medical info/pictures), or we will get a call to let us know how many months of waiting for a referral we will continue to have. I am trying not to get my hopes up, but I now know of two families who were DTR in early April that already have their referrals, and are heading to Russia. How encouraging! I am honestly not rushing this part (at least not today), and enjoying this preparing for baby stage...thinking about how to do the room, what jogging stroller I want (which is a whole post in and of itself...do you know they have MP3 Speaker hookups on these strollers now?!?)
We will continue to keep you posted!
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