First Post of 2010

Happy New Year everybody! We sure hope that this year brings everything we've been waiting so long for! Hopefully the year we finally become a family.

Well, on the news front there is absolutely no news...nope...not a thing. We are very happy for a the families who have received news. We know two families who should be traveling this month. One family is waiting for travel dates. They were meant to travel the 11th but have been postponed until further notice. Apparently there are procedural changes being requested by the Vietnamese government that are delaying things a bit further right now. The director of our agency is over there now (on a trip with high school students to do volunteer work in the orphanages) and is trying to sort this latest glitch out. It should all be sorted by the time we go though.

The other family is traveling January 17th. Their little girl is at the same orphanage as Van and they have generously volunteered to take pics and maybe video of Van. We cannot wait!!!! This is what we are looking forward to now as travel seems to far in the future. So roll on late January!! We've also decided to sent a little care package to Van via this wonderfully generous family! It's always hard to figure out what to put into a care package. We sent one in November and included a new outfit and a couple of toys. This time we're sending a casual outfit and a little stuffed doll (that we slept with for a couple of weeks to pick up our scent. I know that sounds weird but apparently it can be very helpful for adopted babies). Here's a picture :)



It was difficult to choose the clothing. We picked out a few things then when we got them home decided they were too cute to part with. It is likely that the clothes we send will get left with the orphanage when we pick Van up so we tried to find a balance between cute but no so cute that we will regret losing them when we get him home. Once we get to Vietnam we plan on doing a bunch of shopping at local markets for clothes for the orphanage. We'd really like to make some donations.

Anyway, that's all for now. Hopefully the next post will be filled with news of some kind or another.

Meg