Okay, well it looks as though it will be fall before we hear anything.
Here are some of the excerpts from the letter received:
"Due to the Tennessee situation when the mother sent her child back and other abuses, the adoption process' have become much more difficult and stricter for American families. We all understand that waiting is very difficult, but we cannot control the process of referrals. A lot of officials leave for vacation during the summer months and this is why we do not think we will get any new referrals. "
"Tambov is a small region and there are not always a lot of children available but it is the one that accepted and registered your documents. Tatiana, our coordinator, has a great connection there and she is doing her very best there."
I just wanted to thank everyone for their prayers and support.
THANKS!
The Lewis Russian Adoption
Monday, June 28, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Change in my agency Coordinator
Hi Friends and Family...
THE LATEST UPDATE
I received the following e-mail from my agency this morning. This was our second coordinator.
I have sent an e-mail to Natasha for additional information about the words "The summer months are extremely slow in Russia as many of the officials take extended vacations until the Fall. Due to this, the various regional Departments of Education will not be providing referrals at this time." I am not sure what this means - but it doesn't sound good. This waiting is horrible. Why can't things just go smoothly?
e-mail from agency:
Dear Families,My husband has accepted a job in London, England and I will bejoining him there with our children by the end of summer. This sadly means I am unable to continue working as your coordinator.The summer months are extremely slow in Russia as many of the officials take extended vacations until the Fall. Due to this, the various regional Departments of Education will not be providing referrals atthis time.We will do our best to make this transition as smooth as possible foryou, by sending regular updates every 2-3 weeks, but in the meantime, if you have any other questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the Cold Spring office.Natasha will be traveling back to Moscow over the summer, but she isalways available via e-mail at natasha@happyfamilies.org , you may alsocontact Alexis at alexis@happyfamilies.orgI have enjoyed working with you and wish you the best of luck with youradoption.Kind Regards,Marianna Larin
Steve and I were hoping to travel to Russia this summer, but by the sounds of this e-mail, it may be fall before we get a referral.
My niece, Chrissy, asked me last night if we were ever going to get our Russian baby. I told her I hoped so, that we were just waiting. She was going to spend the night, but is allergic to something in my house, so needless to say, I made a trip to Marietta at 9:45 last night. Her eye was all itchy... and she'd forgotten her blankee... - I think it was more the "blankee" than the itchy eye. Her eye is better and she is fine this morning.
"Will I ever get my baby boy? Who knows?"
Frustrated at work, in Marietta, Ohio!
THE LATEST UPDATE
I received the following e-mail from my agency this morning. This was our second coordinator.
I have sent an e-mail to Natasha for additional information about the words "The summer months are extremely slow in Russia as many of the officials take extended vacations until the Fall. Due to this, the various regional Departments of Education will not be providing referrals at this time." I am not sure what this means - but it doesn't sound good. This waiting is horrible. Why can't things just go smoothly?
e-mail from agency:
Dear Families,My husband has accepted a job in London, England and I will bejoining him there with our children by the end of summer. This sadly means I am unable to continue working as your coordinator.The summer months are extremely slow in Russia as many of the officials take extended vacations until the Fall. Due to this, the various regional Departments of Education will not be providing referrals atthis time.We will do our best to make this transition as smooth as possible foryou, by sending regular updates every 2-3 weeks, but in the meantime, if you have any other questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the Cold Spring office.Natasha will be traveling back to Moscow over the summer, but she isalways available via e-mail at natasha@happyfamilies.org , you may alsocontact Alexis at alexis@happyfamilies.orgI have enjoyed working with you and wish you the best of luck with youradoption.Kind Regards,Marianna Larin
Steve and I were hoping to travel to Russia this summer, but by the sounds of this e-mail, it may be fall before we get a referral.
My niece, Chrissy, asked me last night if we were ever going to get our Russian baby. I told her I hoped so, that we were just waiting. She was going to spend the night, but is allergic to something in my house, so needless to say, I made a trip to Marietta at 9:45 last night. Her eye was all itchy... and she'd forgotten her blankee... - I think it was more the "blankee" than the itchy eye. Her eye is better and she is fine this morning.
"Will I ever get my baby boy? Who knows?"
Frustrated at work, in Marietta, Ohio!
Monday, May 17, 2010
Information received from my agency..."Adoptions have slowed down a bit since this incident but are still moving forward.The Russian government made an official decision NOT to close adoption with US last Friday so that is a great thing. But they are being overly careful with documents now. The judges unfortunately have started to request more documents from our families that are about to go to court, which is slowing everything down.The month of May is relatively slow in Russia because they celebrated two very big holidays, one on May 1 and the other on May 9. Usually the first two weeks in May everything is closed." by Marianna my agency contact
Thursday, May 13, 2010
The waiting - Where is my baby boy?
Well - I have never been a very patient person so it shouldn't surprise anyone that I am getting tired of waiting and not knowing. Where is my baby boy?!
I wish I would hear something about my baby boy... His Name?, his age?8 months, 12 months, 18 months? 36 months?, what color is his hair and eyes? When will I see him? How much longer is the wait going to be? a month - 12 months? I can hardly stand it! It is excruiatingly painful to keep me waiting like this. Where is my baby boy?!
Today I bought two recordable books from Hallmark. I hope to have Steve read and record on one of them and I can read the story on the other one. Then when we go over on our first trip we can leave the books at the orphanage with our child and hopefully he will be able to hear our voices even when we aren't there. It was just a spur of a the moment purchase - but hopefully it will help our little boy get used to our voices. Where is my baby boy?!
I have crocheted an afghan for him. I fell asleep the other night, snuggling with it and it was nice and soft (this way it smells like me and I won't be unfamiliar to him). I have started a quilt for him too- it is almost ready to start the quilting process. I had it spread across my bedroom floor last night (my cat had to lay right in the middle of it - of course), while Steve decided if what I was doing looked okay or not. I have crocheted hats for babies in the orphanage in my spare time - during all this waiting. I would love to start his room, but am waiting to do this once we know more about him. I want to buy clothes for him.. but what is his size?! WHERE IS MY BABY BOY?!
My patience is wavering and it has been almost a year since we began this process (June 1, 2009)... Our papework was done by Oct. 15, 2009.......so what is the hold up??? Russia - and the RED TAPE involved in this process! soooooooo WHERE IS MY BABY BOY?!
Hopefully, he is healthy and well and being taken care of.
Dear God, I am ready to be a mother now.... Please send me information about my baby boy soon! Please keep him safe from harm until I can be there to care for him and love him.
WAITING...WAITING....WAITING..... GOING CRAZY.....WAITING....WAITING....WAITING.. WHERE IS MY BABY BOY?!
I wish I would hear something about my baby boy... His Name?, his age?8 months, 12 months, 18 months? 36 months?, what color is his hair and eyes? When will I see him? How much longer is the wait going to be? a month - 12 months? I can hardly stand it! It is excruiatingly painful to keep me waiting like this. Where is my baby boy?!
Today I bought two recordable books from Hallmark. I hope to have Steve read and record on one of them and I can read the story on the other one. Then when we go over on our first trip we can leave the books at the orphanage with our child and hopefully he will be able to hear our voices even when we aren't there. It was just a spur of a the moment purchase - but hopefully it will help our little boy get used to our voices. Where is my baby boy?!
I have crocheted an afghan for him. I fell asleep the other night, snuggling with it and it was nice and soft (this way it smells like me and I won't be unfamiliar to him). I have started a quilt for him too- it is almost ready to start the quilting process. I had it spread across my bedroom floor last night (my cat had to lay right in the middle of it - of course), while Steve decided if what I was doing looked okay or not. I have crocheted hats for babies in the orphanage in my spare time - during all this waiting. I would love to start his room, but am waiting to do this once we know more about him. I want to buy clothes for him.. but what is his size?! WHERE IS MY BABY BOY?!
My patience is wavering and it has been almost a year since we began this process (June 1, 2009)... Our papework was done by Oct. 15, 2009.......so what is the hold up??? Russia - and the RED TAPE involved in this process! soooooooo WHERE IS MY BABY BOY?!
Hopefully, he is healthy and well and being taken care of.
Dear God, I am ready to be a mother now.... Please send me information about my baby boy soon! Please keep him safe from harm until I can be there to care for him and love him.
WAITING...WAITING....WAITING..... GOING CRAZY.....WAITING....WAITING....WAITING.. WHERE IS MY BABY BOY?!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Update...
Today I started my blog page... I just wanted a place to leave information on our Russian Adoption and maybe I can print out later.
To catch everyone up... June 2009... we decided to go ahead with our decision to adopt from Russia.
Paperwork was insane to say the least.
Our homestudy was completed in October.
We were registered in the Tambov Region of Russia in February 2010. Happy Families International told us that the average referral time of this region is 5-12 months... so we have a long wait ahead of us.
April 2010 - some stupid woman from Tennessee sends back her adopted son and causes and international outrage and a halt to adoptions to the US... We are very upset about this.... to say the least. We get information from our agency... Adoptions have not been stopped... they are still open... still hope for our adoption to be finalized in 2010.
My agency (HFI) sent me the following information today...I sent them a question about how we would be getting our referral...
"The way it works is the department of education issues a referral in your name and gives it to our coordinator in Russia. She immediately scans it and emails it to HF office in NY (our office.) We call you or email you right away to let you know we have it and we send it to our translater who usually translates the referral within 2 days. Then we email you the English version of the medical and the photo. Most referrals come with only one photo. They are not always updated and sometimes very poor quality. We have requested updated photos a million times and they almost never give them to us." signed by Marianna....
I hope to be getting an e-mail soon.
To catch everyone up... June 2009... we decided to go ahead with our decision to adopt from Russia.
Paperwork was insane to say the least.
Our homestudy was completed in October.
We were registered in the Tambov Region of Russia in February 2010. Happy Families International told us that the average referral time of this region is 5-12 months... so we have a long wait ahead of us.
April 2010 - some stupid woman from Tennessee sends back her adopted son and causes and international outrage and a halt to adoptions to the US... We are very upset about this.... to say the least. We get information from our agency... Adoptions have not been stopped... they are still open... still hope for our adoption to be finalized in 2010.
My agency (HFI) sent me the following information today...I sent them a question about how we would be getting our referral...
"The way it works is the department of education issues a referral in your name and gives it to our coordinator in Russia. She immediately scans it and emails it to HF office in NY (our office.) We call you or email you right away to let you know we have it and we send it to our translater who usually translates the referral within 2 days. Then we email you the English version of the medical and the photo. Most referrals come with only one photo. They are not always updated and sometimes very poor quality. We have requested updated photos a million times and they almost never give them to us." signed by Marianna....
I hope to be getting an e-mail soon.
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