Tuesday, January 12, 2010

My Most EXCITING post yet!!!

Yay, I finally get to write the "we got the call" post!! After a year and a half the day finally came when we learned the name of our precious little girl. We got a call from our agency a week before Christmas that they had a referral of little girl for us to meet. I'll never forget that day. Of course for some reason my cell phone was messing up that day and going straight to voice mail, it wouldn't ring so I was super bummed when I realized I had missed a call from our agency. When I heard the voice mail, it was our director with the sweetest message, but not stating any details, just asking us to call her back. I got a little butterfly in my stomach and thought it had to be "the call" because if it was just a paperwork issue someone from the office would have called. Of course when I heard the message it was too late for me to call back so needless to say I didn't sleep at all that night. The next morning I called and left her a message and then had to wait. In the meantime I got an email from another family using our agency and they said they too got a call from our director, but it was just to say Russia would be shutting down for their upcoming holiday and to not expect to hear anything until around the 15th of Jan. so I thought that must be it. Thankfully that wasn't it at all, she was calling to give us the most wonderful Christmas news we could ever receive. We learned her beautiful name, her birth month and year and some medical information. We took what medical information we had to the doctors at Texas Children's Hospital, who are wonderful by the way, and met with them the following Tuesday. We signed a letter on Christmas Eve day requesting a meeting with the MOE and to meet this little girl. She is our little Christmas Miracle, we couldn't have asked for a better present or a bigger answer to prayer. Now that I know who she is and have seen her sweet face, the days are going so slow. I thought the waiting before was hard, but this is terrible. Now, I know her and know she is suppose to be ours and I just can't wait to meet her and bring her home. Everytime I hear the new song by Carrie Underwood, "Temporary Home", I start to cry. I think of her and see her sweet face in my mind. She's just in her temporary home now and we are going to bring her to her forever home very soon.

The Travel Dates
Since we got our referral so close to the long Russian holiday we had to wait to hear about travel dates until they got back this week. Yesterday we got a call from our agency with an appointment date of February 1st to meet with the MOE. We are using airline miles, thankfully, what a blessing, so we have a kind of crazy flight schedule, but actually a pretty cool one. We fly out of Houston Friday night Jan. 29th and land in Frankfurt, Germany Saturday morning. This was the only route we could take using our miles, which is actually really cool because Germany is the only country in Europe where we have friends. They live about 30 miles from Frankfurt and we will be able to spend the day with them and have a place to stay that night. We haven't seen them in about 9 years so we are super excited about this extra perk!! We fly from Frankfurt to Moscow and then Moscow to Kaliningrad on Sunday the 31st. We get into Kaliningrad at 5:20pm, so we'll have had plenty of time to adjust to the time change over the weekend and get a good dinner and a good nights rest before we meet with the MOE on Monday. On the way home we get to make the whole trip in one day which is a little nicer. I know I'll be missing my angel boys terribly and would hate to have to take 2 days getting home to them. Now I can start the countdown to meeting our Christmas Miracle, our little girl!!


9 comments:

  1. Congrats on "the call"! I'm not sure where I found your blog, but I've been following for a few months, and had to comment.

    We, too, live in Houston and we, too, got "the call" just before Christmas. And we, too, are meeting with the MOE on Feb 1st! We're going to Astrakhan for a blind referral, though.

    (I keep a blog, also, but it's private. Let me know if you'd like to read along, and I'll send you the invite.)

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  2. Another Texan...your post took me back to the day we got "the call". There's nothing like it. So happy for your family.

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  3. Oh congratulations. What wonderful news. I think we will be on a similar schedule. I still don't have a date as to when we will travel but hope its soon also.

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  4. Congratulations!! I remember "the call"...I started crying before they could even give me any of her details. We have also been following your blog for several months and we are adopting our princess from Samara Russia. We met her over Thanksgiving and are awaiting court dates...Our agency thinks we will hear something by the end of January...oh I hope so. Lots of luck to you!

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  5. CONGRATS! Can't wait to hear about your trip to meet your daughter! Feb. 1st will be here before you know it :)

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  6. Congratulations!!! I will be looking forward to following your journey during this magical time. You did hold out on us though ;-) What a truly blessed Christmas for you all.

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  7. Congratulations!! I just found your blog, so if I may, I'll follow along. We'll be overlapping by a day or so in Russia, we'll arrive on the 7th to meet with the MoE on the 8th. We're traveling blind for another boy. Best of luck with your little girl! We've got a blog too, if you'd like to check it out!

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  8. So excited for ya'll =)

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