For those who know us, know how long and arduous our adoption journey has been. There has been great joy and great sadness and the most apt metaphor of our journey so far would of course have to be a roller coaster. We now hope we are finally on the last leg and that soon we will finally be the parents we have so long hoped to be.
A bit about us: I (Meg the main blogger) am a lawyer currently in between jobs (looking forward to my next job of mommy although the "lawyer" job search does continue) and Pat (Patrick) is a civil engineer who works for the City of Ottawa. We live in Old Ottawa East (or Centretown technically). We moved to Ottawa 3 years ago from Halifax. Pat is from Cape Breton and I am from everywhere and nowhere lol.
We began our adoption journey soon after moving to Ottawa and joined our agency TDH in January of 2007. As mentioned there were some bumps along the road but in on July 31, 2009 we were matched to our little son Tran Van Thang (we will be naming him Van Thomas Green-Lewis). Van was born on July 21, 2009, the year of the water buffalo, hence the blog name :), in the province of Hoa Binh in Northern Vietnam. We received our first pictures of him when he was a week old. In the pictures he is actually 3 days old! Any adoptive family will tell you how rare and precious these early pictures are! We received some updated pictures of our handsome little guy at the beginning of October. We look forward to posting all these pictures once we are in Vietnam and the giving and receiving ceremony has been completed and we are finally a family of 3 (well, 6 if you include our 2 cats and dog...whose pictures we can post...:) Pepper, Huxley and Chibi all waiting anxiously for their little brother.
We look forward to sharing our journey with you from this point on! Our biggest hope is that we will be leaving for Vietnam before Christmas, but it is more likely that it will be January. We will try to keep posting before then...for our own sanity lol.
