A month goes by

Well, so far I am off to a dubious start. I had hoped to post more frequently, but no such luck...

Adoption News
Since I last posted, we have spent many hours getting together paperwork for our upcoming adoption. We visited our non-profit adoption service and were really pleased with our experience there. Faith International is located in Tacoma, Washington, and they are experts in China adoptions, which we finally settled on. I was initially intrigued by the idea of adoption from Nepal, but apparently we could only adopt a boy since we already have a girl at home.

In addition we've had multiple forms notarized and signed, and had our home study visit. Now all of our paperwork is in order, and we wait for our trip to Yakima, Washington, for a visit to the immigration service (now known as CIS) for fingerprinting and a background check. After that, our dossier is essentially complete and we play the waiting game. We've been told that the whole process could take a year, so the wait could be long...


Fun Links
Happy Halloween! I found this cool site to carve a virtual pumpkin online - a fun little diversion. Even more fun, check out this flash animation of Bush in freefall...

Birth of a Blog

Well, today I decided to dive into the creation of a blog. I'd imagine for a long time that I won't have much of interest to say, but there is an ulterior motive, so to speak, for creating this space. You see, my wife and I have decided to pursue an international adoption, and this space will be an ideal venue to share our odyssey with the small community of people who might be interested.

So, for now, that's my start. More to come as we follow our journey. And who knows what else might inspire me to write...

-J