The Cluttered Pantry

The Department of Home Land Security notices arrived!

Appointment Notice

Case Type: 1600A Application for Advance Processing or Orphan Petition

“To process your application, the US Citizen & Immigration Services must capture your biometrics.”

Of course, the dates they assigned to us are while we are still traveling, but Judith saves the day by following up with them and [...]

The Wee Kahunas room is finished…magic men, made of dirt, came to the house while we were working abroad. They moved walls, rebuilt a closet, installed new wood floors, replaced a window that wouldn’t budge, painted the whole room and installed a ceiling fan that looks like a honey pot for Winnie the [...]

A quick look at the calendar and we can tell that if we don’t keep pushing to knock “to do” items off our list we will be setting ourselves up for a trip to Russia in the middle of the winter to pick up the Wee Kahunas. Now, don’t get me wrong, we like [...]

So, the real world and work calls. The two of us start our next set of travels for Really Really Big Industries, Inc. this coming week. This is likely to be one of the last multi week/multi continent trips that we take together for the next couple of years.
We’ve added to the Really [...]

This past weekend we had our home study with the social worker who will be filling out the mountain of paperwork that gets added to our dossier for the Russian courts.
We also submitted our completed applications and associated documents for the adoption agency and sent off the forms required by the department of Homeland Security [...]

This section of our site is more of a journal that documents and shares the  journey to adopt the two children that we are fondly referring to as the Wee Kahunas.
Knowing that we wanted to adopt children from Russia (we very much like the idea of the connection to Bobbi’s heritage from Eastern Europe.) [...]