Yes... It seems imposible, but a year has been passed in front our eyes, and here we are... still looking for you. It seems impossible, but a year has been passed since we sent the first file to Moscow... and here we are, waiting to see you for the very first time. We are stilll dreaming with you... doing things all together, playing games, tripping, seeing you playing with your little cousin in our garden, in your tree house... but still you are a child without a face, and we need desesperately to put a face in those dreams we have every night.
But here we are... still renewing all the paperwork, certificates, photographs, request forms, notarial signatures, sending all to Russia, translating all, collating, sealing... What a nightmare !!
We are trying to look forward and feel that every day passed is one day less to get you in our arms, but in days like this, it's impossible not to look backward and think about all things we have lived since we took the decission to adopt you. We started dreaming of you in January 2010, when we took one of the most important decissons of our lifes: to be your parents forever, and that dream will not end until it turns into reality.
My little angel, have a nice dreams, we will see you there
2011-10-27
2011-10-24
We will peek you at Chita
Just this September we've received good news.
" we are pleased to tell you that is expected your record would be registered in the adnisitrative region of CHITA. On that region, all processes are running normally and without problems or delays. It is the one where most children are picking up by our foundation and the timeframes are aproximately between 6 and 10 months to receive the assignation and, first trip after, 2 or 3 months to receive the court date."
At last we know where we have to go to pick our little child, and the winner is... CHITA !!
You can imagine our reaction... kisses, embrasses with all the family, some tears of your ouncles and your grandparents (and ourselves, of course)...
Now, all our lives turns around to keep the most information about the region, and point on Google Earth the location. Wow !! you are 7800 km far away from home. It will be a long trip for us...
Your mommy had downloaded on her phone an application that gives the weather information of the whole world, and she had configured it to have always the weather from Chita on the screen. At this moment you are at 2º Celsius...
On my side, I had read some information about the city and the region... Chita is a region that borders Mongolia and China. the city has 320.000 people and is the 3rd most important city in Russia in military presence...
Not so far from there, only at 300 km is the Baikal Lake. it is the biggest lake of Asia with 636 Km large, 80 Km wide. and 1.600 mts deep (it would be like going from Barcelona to Madrid by boat... ¿can you imagine?) It has the 20% of the total amount of sweet water of the Earth, and is the best water quality of the world !!
I know that it will be hard to await 6 months to see your face for the very first time, to know you... but I will waste that time studying the Russian language, and I will learn a lot of things trying to be the best daddy for you !! , because even without knowing you, I feel inside that I love you.
Don't worry, my baby. mommy and daddy will soon be looking for you.
Three seconds are enough for a man to be a progenitor.
Beeing father is different,
to be strict, there are only adoptive parents
Every real father has to adopt his child
" we are pleased to tell you that is expected your record would be registered in the adnisitrative region of CHITA. On that region, all processes are running normally and without problems or delays. It is the one where most children are picking up by our foundation and the timeframes are aproximately between 6 and 10 months to receive the assignation and, first trip after, 2 or 3 months to receive the court date."
At last we know where we have to go to pick our little child, and the winner is... CHITA !!
You can imagine our reaction... kisses, embrasses with all the family, some tears of your ouncles and your grandparents (and ourselves, of course)...
Now, all our lives turns around to keep the most information about the region, and point on Google Earth the location. Wow !! you are 7800 km far away from home. It will be a long trip for us...
Your mommy had downloaded on her phone an application that gives the weather information of the whole world, and she had configured it to have always the weather from Chita on the screen. At this moment you are at 2º Celsius...
On my side, I had read some information about the city and the region... Chita is a region that borders Mongolia and China. the city has 320.000 people and is the 3rd most important city in Russia in military presence...
Not so far from there, only at 300 km is the Baikal Lake. it is the biggest lake of Asia with 636 Km large, 80 Km wide. and 1.600 mts deep (it would be like going from Barcelona to Madrid by boat... ¿can you imagine?) It has the 20% of the total amount of sweet water of the Earth, and is the best water quality of the world !!
I know that it will be hard to await 6 months to see your face for the very first time, to know you... but I will waste that time studying the Russian language, and I will learn a lot of things trying to be the best daddy for you !! , because even without knowing you, I feel inside that I love you.
Don't worry, my baby. mommy and daddy will soon be looking for you.
Three seconds are enough for a man to be a progenitor.
Beeing father is different,
to be strict, there are only adoptive parents
Every real father has to adopt his child
2011-10-21
The Story of our Adoption process
The story of our adoption process started on January 26th 2010. It was the day that we presented the documents to the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
We had requested the adoption of a little child from 0 to 3 years old.
Once sealed and delivered the documents, a few days after, they called us to go to the first training sessions with the psycologists and the social workers. In mid-march, we started the process of the long awaited certificate of suitability. This is the document that allows you to adopt a child and consists in four or five sessions with the psycologists talking about our life, our childhood, our live together, our parents... etc, etc, etc... After that, the next step is the home studio with the social worker in order to check if our home is ready to accommodate a child.
On July we received a letter of the Catalan Institute of the Adoption with the preciate certificate.
At last !!! We were prepared to be daddy and mommy !!!
The next step is to sign up with an ECAI (Entitat Col.laboradora en l'Adopció Internacional). These guys will help us throughout the adoption process.
We have spent 7 months in all of these "matters", but at last we were prepared to sign and take a step forward... and this step is to create our own dossier with photos of us (individually and together), photos of both families, photos of home (all rooms and three of the child's room), and all the documents concerning the request of adoption. All of these documents has to be signed, translated and compulsed in Moscow. These documents were sended to Russia in November.
After that, the only thing we can do is... AWAIT to do the next step, that is receive de assignment of the location to pick our child.
We had requested the adoption of a little child from 0 to 3 years old.
Once sealed and delivered the documents, a few days after, they called us to go to the first training sessions with the psycologists and the social workers. In mid-march, we started the process of the long awaited certificate of suitability. This is the document that allows you to adopt a child and consists in four or five sessions with the psycologists talking about our life, our childhood, our live together, our parents... etc, etc, etc... After that, the next step is the home studio with the social worker in order to check if our home is ready to accommodate a child.
On July we received a letter of the Catalan Institute of the Adoption with the preciate certificate.
At last !!! We were prepared to be daddy and mommy !!!
The next step is to sign up with an ECAI (Entitat Col.laboradora en l'Adopció Internacional). These guys will help us throughout the adoption process.
We have spent 7 months in all of these "matters", but at last we were prepared to sign and take a step forward... and this step is to create our own dossier with photos of us (individually and together), photos of both families, photos of home (all rooms and three of the child's room), and all the documents concerning the request of adoption. All of these documents has to be signed, translated and compulsed in Moscow. These documents were sended to Russia in November.
After that, the only thing we can do is... AWAIT to do the next step, that is receive de assignment of the location to pick our child.
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