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Series
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Events from the Beginning
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December
16, 2003 |
We
go to our first informational
meeting about adoption in San Francisco. |
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March
23, 2004 |
We
have decided on the agencies
we want to use, and that we are going to pursue international adoption
in
Russia. Adoption
Connection
and Adoption and Aid
International are our agencies. |
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August
2, 2004 |
All
our paperwork is done,
notarized, apostilled, and delivered to the agency. Now, nothing to do
but wait....
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October
2004 |
By
this time our paperwork has
been submitted to Russia, translated and delivered to the ophanage
facilities in Kaliningrad. |
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April
2005 |
Our
agency assures us that we
would hear nothing until after May, and most likely much later. We
decide to go ahead and make the move to Ashland. We sell the house and
begin looking for a place to live in Ashland while we build. We begin
working with our agency to update our documentation to transfer to
Oregon.
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April
28th |
Feeling
a little perterbed with
the agency because we really want to ask them some questions about
updating our documents, we finally get a phone call. Only it's not
about paperwork, it's about a baby boy that is available for adoption
and would we like to hear more!!!! YES!!
It took a little while to sink in......there's a baby waiting for us.
We got the picture, Jayne cried and called grandparents. His name is
Alexander. |
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May
2nd |
We
get more details about
Alexander and get a whole new set of papers to deal with and give the
official word that we want to adopt him. Now we wait for the dates
for our first trip. With Russian adoption two trips are necessary. One
to meet the child; the Russian government wants you to meet the child
before setting a court date, and a second trip to go to court and make
it official. The trips are about 4-6 weeks apart. |
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May
3rd |
We
have our dates - we leave for Kaliningrad,
Russia on May 22nd and will meet Alexander on May 24th. |
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May
7th |
We
began setting up the nursery.... |
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May
8th
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Very
First Mother's Day |
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May
22
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We leave for Russia -
a very long journey. We leave SF around 9am -> NY->Frankfurt->
arrive Moscow the evening of the 23rd, (overnight stay), then a 3 hour
flight to Kaliningrad. So on May 24th, the day
before Jayne's birthday, we meet Alexander. Check out the Weather in Moscow and
Kaliningrad.
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Click
here to read the continuing journal as we travel to Kaliningrad and
meet Alexander.
(coming soon)
Click
here for more pictures.
(coming soon)
The nursery is taking shape!
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