Children's Hope International E-Newsletter

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

The Other Family
One Family Heeds God?s Voice for Another

DEVELOPMENT AID:

Development Aid
Run for Hope, Run for
Children, Run for Life

PARENT-TO-PARENT:

Parent-to-Parent
Syncing a ?Special? Family Takes Teamwork

KIDS CORNER:

Kids Corner
Festival Kites to Celebrate
Your Adoption

Children's Hope
Easter Party 2008

PROGRAM UPDATES:

	China Children, Long Awaiting Parents, Find Forever Homes through Waiting Children Program
	Colombia Safe Travels into a Nation Just Out of Turbulent Times
	Ethiopia Eight Families See Referrals for their Ethiopian Child
	Kazakhstan Families Meeting to Bond with Their Sons
	Russia Spring Showers Bring a Flood of Travel for Happy Russia Families
	Vietnam New Parents Join Large and Excited Travel Groups to Complete Their Vietnamese Adoptions

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More Paperwork!?

? A soon to be mom to a Russian daughter does the legwork to later fill her loving arms.

I found out last week that Russia is requesting more updates to documents - this time mainly from my home study agency. My understanding of all the paperwork lately is that since the New Year and reaccreditation process completion, verbiage changes have been made to the old documents to standardize the format to make it easier to read and process. (Or something to that nature). I totally understand making things easier. I just hope that I am getting closer to finishing all of the re dos. I can't think of very many pages that I haven't redone, so it must be close, right?

In order to make the paper chase today more fun, I decide to document all of my stops in photos. I am also going to put these in "T"s Life Book so that she can look at them and see some of the people that have helped to bring her home, and the places her Mom went to get the paperwork completed.

First stop today was to pick up my mom so she could keep me company and meet some of the people at my home study agency who have helped in a big way to make this dream all possible.
	Next stop - Ann Arbor: an hour and 15 minute drive from my house to pick up the documents and say "Hi" to all of the people that have helped me with my home study reports. Unfortunately my social worker Alanna was sick, so I'll have to catch up with her next week for a photo op.
Once all the documents were picked up, and notarized at the office, it was off to Detroit to get them apostilled - thirteen documents this time. Here I am in front of the Secretary of State office in Detroit after receiving the golden seals. Long line again today...1 1/2 hour wait.
	Once the Great Seal was affixed, we headed back up north toward home in Chesterfield and New Baltimore, to the Staples store where I always make copies of everything before I send them off.
Then.....to my favorite Post Office in New Baltimore to Express Mail my precious documents off to Children's Hope International. So, Marti, if you are reading this blog today, be on the look out for my package. :0)

Whew!!! Now I'm a little tired and think I'll relax and see what everyone else has been up to today.

P.S. No phone call today regarding travel or a referral, darn.... Maybe all of these papers will help.

Twenty-five families were scheduled to travel this month from the Children?s Hope International Russia Program. All that paperwork will be uniting families from across the world, across the nation. Congratulations to these families!

Shannon Frederick is adopting her daughter from Krasnoyarsk, Russia, and blogs at Journey to My Little Russian Princess.