We leave Easter Sunday!!

We just got the call that we are leaving NY Easter Sunday (4/8) & will back in NY on 4/15. We will be at the Baby Home for 3 days from April 10-12th. There is a 12 hr time difference with Kemerovo (they are ahead). I have a ton of things to do today with Erik. Friday is our day together but I will be dragging him all over the place. Will try to post more later

Getting Ready

We still do not have "official" travel dates but my rep still thinks we are leaving on Easter Sunday so we are busy trying to get ourselves organized. We have had a bag ready with muchof what we need for months now but I need to go back through it now since I know she is only 8 months old & we are not travelling in the dead of the winter. For those who do not know this first trip is to meet our referral & agree that we will adopt her. The trip is usually 1 week. I know it sounds weird to refer to her as a "referral" but we are just protecting ourselves in case something happens. Hopefully she will be our daughter. We still are not sure what her name will be but we think it will be Rachel Victoria. I have been searching on the internet tonight to find out about the region & also about the weather & found this site. Its not up to date but gives you a good idea what the Baby Home is like. Victoria is from Baby Home #2.
http://novokuznetskorphans.da.ru/

We are travelling with another family from Chicago & we have been exchanging a lot of emails. This will be her first adoption & is adopting a 3 yr boy from a different Baby Home but it will be so nice to travel with someone on the first trip. When we adopted Erik we travelled solo on our first trip but we did meet a lot of nice families along the way

We told Erik we will be going to Russia soon but of course it really did not sink in. I don't think it will until we bring back a picure/video of her.

Please wish us luck & prayers on this next part of our journey to expand our family!

We got "THE CALL"

We just got "The Call" from our agency. The referral is for a 8 month little girl & her Russian name is Victoria. We still are getting the details on the travel dates but we probably would leave NJ on April 9th. I will post more later...

Some news

We received an email today from our agency that they feel they will know by the end of this week when we will be travelling & that we will be travelling with another family I have made contact with who is adopting a 3 yr boy. Finally ... some hopeful news! Nothing is definite yet but I think this could mean we would travel in 2 -3 weeks to Russia!

Day of Mourning in Russia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6473921.stm

The tradegy which happened with the mine explosion is in the town where ours daughter's Baby Home is.