The long weekend

Nothing new to report from this weekend. We are stilling playing the waiting game with BCIS (INS) for our I-171H. Today marks the fourth week since we turned in our initial paperwork.

We watched this weekend's Dateline NBC segment, "From Russia With Love" on Sunday about the couple from New Jersey who adopted twins (boy and girl) from Russia and their initial journey to find more information about Sophia and Joe's birth family. A journey that would double the size of their family. Joe and Sophia had two brothers (twins) and two sisters (twins) who lived scattered periods of time with their mother, but most of their time in separate orphanages. The Dateline story details rest of the story...I won't spoil here, but will on down the page--so stop reading if you want to read what happens.

Link to the story

Their story really tugged at my heart, many times wiping the tears from my cheeks. Not only the kids, on both sides, but for the family and the community that rallied around them to help them bring their other four children home. I was happy for all eight of them...and a bit jealous and impatient.

But, they had to wait as we are. They had even more legal hoops through which to jump on account of the children's ages, so that tempered my initial feelings.

Each day takes us closer to holding her in our arms...