Paperwork Redo

Well, its been a year since we started our dossier and we actually have documents that have expired. Some of today and tomorrow morning will be spent redoing docs for our dossier. Its good to stay on top of this stuff!

No news from our agency. Perhaps December will be our lucky month!

I have finished the curtains for the kids' room and put them up. I will post pics this weekend.

Not much else going on, but we are going out tonight for a friend's going away. Our singles gang has settled down and is slowly moving away. Its been years since we had a pub crawl like we used to do every weekend when we were all younger. I've had several "last hoorahs" over the past 4 years while trying to get pregnant and now while adopting. I always think it will be my last opportunity for 18 years to get crazy, but here I am, still childless.

We may be meeting up with new friends from my favorite Eastern European Adoption group, FRUA, tomorrow night in Lansing. The weather is supposed to be crap here though, so we may have to reschedule.

I'll post more later.

Dyeti?

Just in case you're wondering....dyeti means kids or children in Russian.

The First Post

Let me introduce myself. My name is Jena, and I'm a pre-adoptive parent. What does that mean? Well, it means I'm in the process of adopting but haven't gotten custody of my kids yet. Actually, we haven't even gotten a referral yet. But it should happen "soon".

Pete and I got married on May 9, 2003, and started trying to conceive immediately. Over the next three and half years, he and I both endured many tests trying to figure out why we weren't getting pregnant. I had exploratory surgery in July 2005 and the doctors found nothing conclusive. Our next step was IntraUterine Insemination (IUI) in August. It was unsuccessful, and I fell into a deep depression. A year later, when I felt up to it again, we tried IUI once more. Again, we were unsuccessful, and our fertility doctor told us that I don't respond well to the hormone shots. I had only a 50% chance of producing enough eggs to even continue to IVF. Additionally, the IUI process had sent me into a depression once more. We decided at that time that the best option for us was to adopt. I felt a huge sense of relief knowing that we were heading down a path that would lead to us definitely having a family!

We spent a couple months researching agencies, countries and types of adoption. After much consideration, we chose to adopt two children from Russia and signed up with a reputable, trustworthy agency. That was October 2006. It took us 8 months (yes 8!) to get our dossier together. On a wonderful day in June of this year, we submitted our dossier to our agency. We are now just waiting for the call!