International adoption messes with your mind! I try to be a positive person most of the time, but I also like to be honest and share all aspects of our journey in order to help others who travel down the same road. Today I realized how messed up I am as people around the office were so excited that it was Friday. Friday in our minds means it is Saturday in Vlad which means no one is working to get us one step closer to being registered. Of course I realize then that on Sunday they are back to work because it is Monday there but you get my point…
I don’t think I have mentioned that there is this small window of opportunity here for us to get registered until the next roadblock happens. Lutheran’s license expires on October 27th or somewhere right around there and they do not currently have the renewed license from the state in their possession. YIKES!
Update: Just as I was typing this post I got a message that the Regional Operator got our documents on Wednesday but did not have time to review them and asked Irina to leave them there. Irina will be at the Department of Education on Tuesday so she is hoping to find out then if we are registered or not.
On a side note, I got the sweetest Boss’s Day card today and in the card was a donation to the baby home fundraiser! Such big hearts they have!!! I am thankful to work with such great people.
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Boston Levi Overstreet
Married on June 6, 1998
4 yrs, 7 yrs, 9 yrs.
Orphans At play
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Boston Levi Overstreet
About us...
We are Justin and Heather - high school sweethearts. After 6 years of dating we married in 1998 . On October 3, 2000 Brady was born into our family followed by Madison on October 9, 2002. After much prayer and a complete leap of faith, we began our first adoption journey in March of 2008. On April 16th, 2009 Blake entered our family from Vladivostok, Russia. We now feel called to return to Vladivostok one more time to complete our family with a fourth child. We documented our first journey on a blog that is now set to private. On that blog we share our day-to-day happenings. We look forward to sharing our second adoption journey with you through this blog. Thank you for checking in on us!
Private Blog:
overstreetjourney.blogspot.com
Private Blog:
overstreetjourney.blogspot.com
Fundraiser for Baby Home
(Ending the fundraiser on February 22, 2011)
You can purchase a t-shirt to help raise money for our donation to the baby home on trip number two. Please check out this blog entry for more information.
You can purchase a t-shirt to help raise money for our donation to the baby home on trip number two. Please check out this blog entry for more information.
Front and Back of T-Shirt
Justin and Heather
Married on June 6, 1998
Blake, Madison, Brady
4 yrs, 7 yrs, 9 yrs.
Adoption Timeline
- 4/19/11 - Boston-US Citizen!
- 4/14/11 - Left Vlad for Moscow
- 4/1/11 - Gotcha Day!
- 3/31/11 - Court Date!
- 3/30/11 - See Little Guy Again
- 3/26/11 - Leave for Moscow
- 3/16/11 - Received court date!
- 3/6/11 - B turns 2
- 2/22/11 - Judge assigned
- 2/14/11 - Docs submitted to court
- 2/7/11 - Needed Moscow Docs Arrive
- 1/20/11 - Court Doc mailed out
- 12/9/10 - Last visit on trip 1
- 12/6/10 - Meet OUR little guy!
- 12/3/10 - Left for trip 1
- 11/23/10 - Got travel dates
- 11/17/10 - Registered in Vlad!
- 10/29/10 - Mailed 2nd FBI prints
- 10/21/10 - 3rd attempt to
register - 9/29/10 - 2nd attempt to register
- 9/1/10 - 1st attempt to register
- 9/1/10 -
Visas arrived good til 9/1/11 - 8/11/10 I-171H approval arrived
- 8/10/10 Dossier sent to Vlad
- 8/3/10-Fingerprint appointments
- 6/30/10-DCFS homestudy approval letter
- 5/6/10 - FBI clearances arrived
- 5/14/10-Homestudy sent to DCFS for approval
- 7/1/10-Homestudy mailed to UCIS
- 4/15/10-Second homestudy visit
- 3/30/10 - Mailed World Links Agreement
- 3/24/10 - I-600 A sent
- 3/19/10 - First homestudy visit
- 3/18/10 - Mailed World Links Adoption
Application - 3/12/10 - FBI & State fingerprints done for homestudy
- 3/12/10 - Mailed Lifelink Application for homestudy
- 3/06/10 - signed application for adoption
- 3/02/10 - found out Lana & Irina work for World Links now
- 2/23/10 - Decided to discuss adoption #2
Money Conversion
Vladivostok, Russia
1 comment:
Heather, I found your blog through the Caseys' and oh how I can relate!!! You would see similar posts on mind and it is all for sharing the reality of the process rather than the sugar-coated goodness bits. :) I am also having registration frustration but that is because my state's LCFS license expires on 10/26 and neither region I am registering in will register the paperwork they have had in hand until they get a new copy. Unfortunately our DCFS moves so slowly, I was forewarned it could be that day or later before they have a copy in hand. Being single, always waiting for the other shoe to drop so getting registered at least gives some false sense of security that it is at least a tiny step forward.
Best of luck!
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