The Cluttered Pantry

While were in Chita, Katia and Eugene spent a good amount of time answering our many questions about the follow trip that includes our court date and will result in our getting to bring the Wee Kahunas home. They also reviewed all of the paperwork we have submitted to make certain we are in compliance [...]

58 documents – each and every one of them signed, notarized, and apostilled, were carefully sorted, tagged, stapled with our fab red swingline, (again, if you don’t know what we are talking about we pity your pop culture education and insist that you come over for movie night…) then filed and sent in [...]

We mentioned in our last post that one of the things we are doing while we wait for all that paper to get stamped and signed and certified and sealed and translated is some minor home projects. Well, we thought they’d be minor projects…
Now that the Wee Kahunas’ bedroom construction is finished we were [...]

Or are you just happy to see us? Our next step in the paper chase is to compile our “Dossier.” (This is the giant packet of documents that Russia requires be completed prior to putting us on the waiting list for children to be referred to us.
Many, many of the documents listed in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.) [...]