Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Rob and I stayed home with Grandmother and had the traditional Thanksgiving meal. Rob smoked the turkey to perfection and I fixed the sides. I actually made homemade dressing and giblet gravy without screwing it up. We cooked up a feast so we’d have tons of leftovers. It was funny to see Grandmother chow down. She normally doesn’t eat much but she had worked up an extra big appetite for this meal. She gnawed on a whole turkey leg and ate pretty much everything on her plate. When it came time for pie, she had two slices!! I told her we were impressed and she just grinned from ear to ear. I’m still amazed at times that we have a 98-year old living with us!!
Okay, back to adoption news…
We heard from our attorney today and she says that now we’re waiting for the Ministry of Children’s Affairs in Latvia to receive the written ruling from the Riga orphan court telling them that Kristine can be adopted internationally. Once that happens, the Ministry will officially match us with Kristine. Next week there is a big NATO summit in Riga so the government offices will be shut down for a few days. That means even more waiting! At this point, we’re almost hoping to travel in January instead of December. Olegs and Kristine will be here with us during the last couple of weeks in December, so things would get a little complicated if we were to get travel dates in December. However, we’re still a little nervous about waiting until January because our attorney is due to have a baby sometime in January. She’ll be out of commission for a few weeks when that happens. It’s possible our court dates could be pushed to February. We can’t think about all of this or we’ll go nuts. Right now we’re just focusing on the fact that we’ll have the kids with us for Christmas and we’re grateful for that.
Rob and I are both tired of being on an emotional roller coaster. We can handle the wait if we at least know why we’re waiting. The information about our case is coming very slowly now and that continues to be frustrating. We have felt strongly that our case isn’t getting the appropriate amount of attention. Even if that’s true, there’s not a whole lot we can do about it. We’re trying to remember that things will happen in God’s timing. Still isn’t easy, though!
We talked to Kristine on Wednesday and got to tell her that she and Olegs will be coming for Christmas. She was ecstatic. We had planned to tell her when we talked to her earlier in the week on Sunday but that conversation got cut short when a friend of hers grabbed the phone and made a vulgar comment using a really bad 4-letter word (use your imagination and you can figure it out). Kristine thought it was a little too funny so we told her we were not happy and we would talk to her later. The friend probably didn’t understand what he said, but just knew it would get a big reaction if he said it. Whatever! We were not amused. We heard Kristine yelling at her friend once she realized we were hanging up, so at least she understands that what he said was wrong. When we talked to her the next time on Wednesday, all was forgotten and we were able to talk about Christmas. Much better. We’ll just be so glad when we can all spend time together. We miss Kristine and Olegs so much.
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