September 2006

September 25, 2006
First families are in Vietnam.The first two families from our agency arrived in Vietnam yesterday. This is such a milestone for the rest of the families waiting to adopt through our agency. Back in May, the first four families received referrals. Two families got their referrals from the Provence of Ben Tre and two families from the Provence of Vinh Long. The families with referrals from Ben Tre are in Vietnam today. Unfortunately, the Vinh Long families are still waiting for travel approval. Ben Tre care center has about 20 children waiting for adoption. Seven of those children are referred to families and are waiting for paper work to be finished and for their families to be given travel approval to travel to pick up their babies. One of the two families traveling is going to pick up twin boys who are around two years old. They have set up a blog to follow their journey at http://www.busstwins.blogspot.com/. This will be their second adoption from Vietnam. They also have twins they adopted before the moratorium.This gets us one-step closer to our referral. Yeah! There are 10 families with referrals, 21 families with dossiers in Vietnam waiting for pre-referrals. We are number 17 on that list.

September 13,2006

September 13, 2006
Life goes on……It has been a while since I posted so I will catch you up on the adoption front. Our dossier made it to VN on Aug 11 and now we wait. That is about it. I have not heard anything from the agency regarding the status. They say they will not hear a thing until it is logged in with the DIA. Therefore, no news is good news. Patiently waiting