I tend to face things on with full force. Sometimes I run myself into the ground. I am learning not to do that, but when I feel passionately about something, bad habits tend to show their faces. That is how I am feeling right now - whipped. I have spent so much energy on the dossier and especially on fundraising, that I am experiencing a good old fashioned case of burn out. I am exhausted. I haven't posed anything in my EBay store for almost the whole summer, as I was busy with yard sales, Amazon and the dossier. I suppose it is time to get back into the EBay routine. So, maybe I will do that this weekend. I'd rather do the hardcore fundraising now and slow down a couple of months before travel, because God knows I will need all of the energy I can get when it's time to go! At the same time, I am so exhausted that I feel it's essential for me to take a week off completely. I may even go so far as to not read blogs for a week. THE HORROR! Not sure I can actually pull that off.
I'm worried about the upcoming September 15 date, which may or may not bring some kind of announcement. I'm sort of kicking myself about my 2 months of slacking off last winter, as if I had started the process, my dossier would be in Kaz right now. But, it's all happening the way it's supposed to.
I am discouraged by seeing the number of PAPs who are dropping out of the Kaz program. It's making me nervous. Am I missing something? UGH. So, I'm sorry for the downer blog post today. LOL. I'm grumpy and I just want to bring my baby home. This is the first time I have really felt "DOWN" in the 9 months this has been going on. I guess that's not so bad.
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This is the story of how a single 30-something year old woman and a 6.5 month old angel from Kazakhstan found each other and became a family. A journey which started as a dream, became reality in August 2009 when two hearts found one home... together.
Anelya Porter Caesar
On September 3, 2009 at 11:22 in Semey, Kazakhstan, Elemecova Aneliya Ahatovna became Anelya Porter Caesar and I became her mother. This is our love story of how we became a family.
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- Testing, Testing, 1...2...3...
- Four Weeks Have Passed...
- Explanation of Going Private
- Going Private
- A Wee Bit of a News Update
- A Wee Bit of News
- Lily's Already Signing Autographs
- No News is...No News
- Plan of Action
- Resting and Nesting
- There Goes the Neighborhood! Yard Sale Pics
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Adoption Timeline
- 11/06/09 (???) Anelya Becomes U.S. Citizen
- 10/31/09 Gotcha Day
- 10/28/09 Back to Kazakhstan
- 09/05/09 End of Trip 1
- 09/03/09 Court Date
- 08/10/09 "Meetcha Day"
- 08/08/09 Off to Kazakhstan
- 07/31/09 Receive Letter of Invitation (LOI)
- 1/12/09 Region Assignment
- 12/04/08 (more or less) Dossier at Ministries
- 10/13/08 Dossier at NY Consulate
- 10/03/08 (maybe earlier) Dossier Out of Translation
- 08/27/08 Home Study Received by LMI (4-6 weeks until Consulate)
- 08/26/08 Sent Revised Home Study to LMI
- 08/26/08 Got Revised Home Study Apostilled
- 08/26/08 Received New Home Study
- 08/15/08 Request to pull homestudy from translation to provide updated one with no gender preference
- 08/14/08 Dossier in Translation
- 08/05/08 Dossier sent to LMI
- 08/04/08 Apostilled docs received
- 07/31/08 NH dossier docs sent for apostilles
- 07/30/08 Dossier Approved for Apostille Process
- 07/24/08 Faxed Dossier to LMI for approval
- 07/17/08 Received Fingerprints
- 07/08/08 Sent Fingerprints to FBI
- 07/07/08 Fingerprinting
- 06/26/08 I-71H RECEIVED!!!
- 06/25/08 Applied for two grants
- 06/25/08 Sent Homestudy to USCIS
- 06/19/08 Homestudy final copy received
- 06/02/08 Homestudy draft submitted to LMI
- 05/02/08 Biometrics/Fingerprints at USCIS
- 04/25/08 Medical Exam Complete
- 04/20/08 Homestudy Begins
- 04/19/08 Received Background Check Back from CPS
- 04/18/08 Completed Adoptive Parenting Course
- 04/17/08 Received Application Received Notification from USCIS
- 04/17/08 Social Worker Contacts Me
- 04/13/08 Started Adoptive Parent Education Requirement
- 04/10/08 Filed I600A with US Citizenship and Immigration Services
- 04/09/08 Assigned a social work for home study
- 04/05/08 Contracts received by Agencies
- 04/04/08 Sent Background Check Request to CPS
- 04/02/08 Sent Agency Contracts and Home Study Request
- 2/01/08 - 04/01/08 Slacked and went to Sweden
- 1/30/08 Application ACCEPTED!!!
- 1/25/08 Notification that LMI received application
- 1/25/08 Joined International Adopt NH yahoo group
- 1/22/08 Sent application to LMI
- 1/17/08 Life insurance physical
- 1/16/08 Filled in application
- 01/06/08 Decision to use Little Miracles International (LMI)
- 01/06/08 Joined Adoption Agency Research on Yahoo Group
- 1/02/08 Joined single Kaz moms yahoo group
- 12/29/07 Joined Kazakhsan Adoption on Yahoo Groups
- 12/29/07 Started Adoption fundraising on Amazon
- 12/24/07 Started Adoption Blog
- 12/24/07 Decision to adopt from Kazakhstan
- 12/15/07 Decision to adopt
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Appropriate Adoption Communication Cheat Sheet
- Instead of A) try using B)
- A) Do you have your own children? B)Do you have a biological child?
- A) She has an adopted daughter. B) She has a daughter.
- A) They have a Kazakh son. B) They have a son.
- A) She is a single adoptive mother. B) She is a mother. (Unless he is single, interested and decent. Then y all means, mention the single part ;-) )
- A) She is adopted. B) She was adopted. (Adoption is a one time event)
- A) His real parents B) His biological parents
- A) She was abandoned. B) She was placed for adoption.
- A) His birth mother gave him up. B) His birth mother was unable to to parent him.
- A) How much did she cost? B) How much did the adoption process cost?
Links I have found helpful
Map of Kazakhstan
I'm a Peacemaker
4 comments:
I'm there with you Andrea. The waiting is just tiring and I too feel as though I am missing something when so many people are dropping out. The good news is that people are still coming home with babies, getting assigned regions and getting LOI's. That is what keeps me going :)
Suzette
Hi Andrea,
I think you have to look at what agencies those dropping out are with...there seem to be a handful that have all of the problems and all of the dropouts (actually, I can only think of one off the top of my head.) My agency is a small one dealing only with Kaz. I have become friends with my coordinator, who's also the head of the agency (she's meeting my parents at a BBQ I'm having for some Kaz families next week!) She is still accepting new clients, including single women. I trust her completely when she tells me what's going on and that we will see this through to the end. If you believe in your agency, and won't give up, I believe that you'll be fine!
Thank you to all of you for your words on encouragement on and off the blog. Don't wrry, I'm not dropping out or even worried about my agency - I love and trust LMI completely. I'm just tired. I took this afternoon off and am curled up watching a film with my dogs. Good move. Thanks again!
Hey there,
You will have many days of anger and frustrations and then you will have good days. As everyone says when we meet our children and we are back home we will know what all this waiting was for.
Sandi
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