One Step Closer!!!

We got great news today from our agency! They have received the adoption decree (I am not sure when they received it, but we learned of it today) and things can begin to move forward for an embassy date! If you remember when I posted HERE about this important step!

So, now we wait again!
Here is the document list:
1. The decree needs to be translated and legalized!
2. The new birth certificate listing us a parents will be issued!
3. A passport will be needed for M to come home
4. Background documents need to be translated and legalized.
5. A letter from MOWA is needed (A letter from Ministry Of Women's Affairs is what held us up on the court date)!
6.All of these documents must be submitted to the embassy by December 29th in order to get the January 12th embassy date we are all praying for!

This means we essentially sit and wait until December 29th (maybe) although we might hear of something before that date! We hope so! Our agency closes around Christmas, so we REALLY hope that we will get Embassy confirmation before they close so that we can book our plane tickets!

I also got to see some new photos of our handsome son today! Here he is eating with the nannies! I swiped this photo from a facebook account so I am not sure how it will transfer to a blog.


I have written about a very special Christmas song for the last two years at Christmas time. The song is entitled "Merry Christmas" and is on the Third Day Christmas Offerings CD. The last two years the song has made me cry, this year, I think if any of you who know us well will share in our tears as you listen!