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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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August
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- Recap of Monday
- Final Court Training Tonight
- What a Day
- Back At It
- Nothing For You Today
- I HAVE A COURT DATE!
- Another Day and Russian Orthodox Church
- Laughfest, Bowling and Ordering for a Village
- B.E.S.T. G.I.G.G.L.E. E.V.E.R.
- Last Official Day of Bonding
- No No No! Got it!
- Old Russian Proverb #5: Hotel Rules
- Yes Tummy, We Have Been in Kazakhstan for Two Weeks
- Raspberries
- So Busy!
- I'm So Busy Today - SUPER CROUP!
- Raspberries and Giggles
- Old Russian Proverb #4 Sports
- Our Digs and Croupski
- Tower of Joy
- Croup and Preparing for Court
- Party in the Sauna
- Mom's Toast
- Night Night Babushka!
- Whatever Olga Wants, Olga Gets!
- Update from the woods
- We're in the woods
- A Walk With Our Buddies and the Nuclear Memorial
- Mimicking Sounds
- No Nyet Nyet Nyet!
- Speaking Pasha: Episode #4 Music
- Feeding a Sleeping Baby
- Stacking Cups and Jumping!
- NYET! NYET! NYET!
- Dinner with the Clark/Gilpatricks
- Yummies and Walks and Books and Snuggles!
- Tha Anelya Show
- Speaking Pasha: Episode 3 Cooking
- ATTENTION BLOG STALKERS
- Old Russian Proverb #3: Wildlife
- Watch Out, Grandma!
- Anelya Dressed as a Mummy
- Swinging with Baba
- Mama, I Will NEVER Sit!!!
- First Time Outside - Ever!
- This Joint is JUMPIN!
- Happy Happy Jump Jump Jump
- Let Her Do It
- Snuggles and Adventures in Kazakh Cuisine
- Feeling Better and Offroad Adventures - Sunday a.m.
- Old Russian Proverbs: Episode #2
- C.U.T.E.S.T. C.R.Y. O.N. E.A.R.T.H.
- Rough Afternoon
- Anelya is 7 Months Old Today!
- New Toy!
- Playtime!
- Four Bites and a Gulp
- Impostor
- Taking Temperature
- Sick Baby and Who Are You and What Have you Done W...
- Baby House Visit #1 and Semey History Museum
- Bustin a Move & Who's Yo Mama?
- Video - Anelya Would Like to Go to the Spa Please
- Boogies, Snuggles, Sitting and Birth Family Histor...
- Speaking Pasha: Episode 1
- Turnips and Dostoyevsky
- First Feeding
- Old Russian Proverb - Part I
- Doing The Worm
- Tummy Time
- Meeting Anelya
- Meet Anelya - Video #1
- Meet Anelya
- Arrival to Kazakhstan
- En Route
- Ok Catching Up!
- Boarding Plane to Semey
- The Eagle Has Landed in Storkistan!
- Here in Frankfurt
- The Day Has FINALLY Come!
- Overview of the In Country Process
- Dear Fedex
- Swedish Invasion
- Visas on Their Way Today
- Belly Kicks
- Testing Blackberry Post
- Dear Fedex Dude,
- On This Episode of Andrea Stalks Fedex...
- Scurrying around town
- GOT MY LOI!
- Final Fundraiser
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August
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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
5 comments:
HaHa.. did you go off roading. I swear they make NYC taxi drivers look calm.
Andrea- you look so beautiful today and your glowing. Ah the happy mommy glow.
Ok, this will be long.
#1 I want you to know how badly its been KILLING me to have your first week over there be my ONLY week of being disconnected from the internet whilst on vacation. HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE dying to read these posts.
#2 I want you to take this as the highest compliment possible that I have literally been ignoring my kids for the last 2 hours while reading said posts, videos, and russian proverbs. I think they are about to set the house on fire, so thankfully I am caught up. I love her, and cannot WAIT to bite her. (said lovingly of course!)
#3 Christopher (my oldest) shares the same birthday and he wants to know if she will have a Wolverine birthday party with him. I said probably not, because 1 year old birthdays are very special and it will likely scare the hell out of her. He thinks he can convince her otherwise...I said its worth a shot.
#4 Thank you for sharing such intimate details and times about this adventure and life changing experience, I am a pile of mush and am out of tissues, so again thankful that I'm all caught up.
She is an edible bunch of snuggily fun that I cannot wait to meet and and so grateful you two finally found each other! Tell your mom that she is indeed a trooper and so so glad she is with you to experience all of this!
Greco, OUT!
SO funny!!!
hilarious and that she is sitting next to the giant stuffed animal. you should kidnap that thing.
Ok, this is the funniest stuff ever. I love these Russian Proverbs. You can just tell that your mom is trying her hardest not to crack up. You two are good....maybe you should take this act on the road. :)
What is the best part of the Kazak Road?? If it isn't the road? Is it that there aren't true roads? :)
Christy
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