Adoption Update

Going through the process to hopefully (nothing is guaranteed!) grow our family through adoption is seemingly never ending.

We have wonderful friends in New Zealand who are gathering all of our NZ documents and sending them on to be legalised.

The only problem now is that New Zealand goes on holiday (vacation) from now until the end of January. It is their summer time after all and who wants to miss out on all that sunshine! 

Hopefully someone will be in the government office and can process our documents before too long.

Back in Canada we are just waiting for Jessica's police check as the final document here.

But don't begin to get too excited, we still have a very long way to go.

First we have to be accepted by the Lithuanian authorities, and then the children have to be approved for us by the Canadian authorities. Before we can even begin to think about getting excited.

But things are moving!

Our Homestudy and Letter of Approval were sent on to Lithuania today. This makes us eligible to begin looking at possible children.

Slow down...

Take a breather...

This just means we can show an interest in a particular sibling group. Our file will then be collected with the 20 (or 10, or 5) other families from around the world interested in that same sibling group. From there Lithuania will choose the most suitable family and that family will be allowed to make further inquiries.

If we don't get chosen we have to wait and begin the process all over again when Lithuania releases the next list of children available for international adoption.

And so it goes on and on!

Mumzy