Alex in the snow

Alex in the snow

Monday, October 22, 2007

The waiting is the hardest part

Hi! For those of you who don't already know us, I am Sue, my husband is Heath and we have three beautiful boys, Richie (15), Michael (13 ) and Jake (7). We also have a dog (Nikki), two cats (Jeter and A-Rod), a bearded dragon (Joba) and a large fish tank!!!! I am a Special Education Teacher and my husband is a Cable Technician! In addition to attending our children's sporting events, I love photography and scrapbooking!

Well, we are almost done with our dossier! We only need to get our fingerprints done (second time because we are already certified for a domestic homestudy but need new ones for international) and then our homestudy will be completed. Once we have the homestudy, our dossier will be sent in immediately. We must have everything to Families for Children by late November so I feel like we are racing to the finish line!

We met En-Yang at the Kid Save program (http://www.kidsave.org/) in the summer in Maryland. We fell in love with him immediately. My son, Jake (7) got along so well with him. On the long drive home, we decided he was perfect for our family!

So, here we are at the end of October. I am told that once Taiwan has all of our paperwork (end of November) we will have a 3-5 month wait to go and pick him up. Just Jake and I are going to Taiwan to get him but we were REALLY hoping it would be much sooner! It's going to be a long winter of waiting! I miss him! Terribly! And, I hope he doesn't forget him although I am sending him photographs every single month (copies of the photos of him and Jake together along with photos of our family doing things like pumpkin picking with a short explanation of what we are doing so it might help him understand some of the American traditions).