Knight Family Adoption: Beginning a New Year

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Friday, January 2, 2009

Beginning a New Year

Happy New Year! We had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to 2009 with great expectations!

We met with our new social worker this morning. Our adoption agency Children's Hope International has closed their branch in Kansas, but they are still operating in Missouri. Because of this we have to change some of our original documents to the new social agency Family Christian Services. Also, sadly to say, our Home Study documents from last year are expiring, so we have to re-do much of our paperwork.

Our new social worker is very sweet. We are glad for that. She has been with Family Christian Services for over 25 years. So, we are hoping we will not have to change again in the future!

Our CHI representive in St. Louis will be back in the office on Monday. Hopefully we'll hear some type of update next week.

2 comments:

Lakeshore Cottage Living said...: Would love to visit with you...we are in Kansas as well and are adopting a baby girl from Russia and have three kids too! We are close to Wichita...

krisandjp@cox.net

P.S. I have no idea how I found your blog.

Kristine; January 6, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Angela Knight said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; January 6, 2009 at 9:22 PM

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Adoption Time Line

November 7, 2009 ~ Tess's 4th Birthday
October 30, 2009 ~ Tess is HOME!
October 25 - 30, 2009 ~ Final trip to Vladimir!
October 4 - 7, 2009 ~ Third Trip to Vladimir, just Angela. Filed paperwork for Tess's passport.
September 21, 2009 ~ Court Day!
September 19 - 22, 2009 ~ Second trip to Vladimir
August 27, 2009 ~ Recieved court date! Set for September 21st.
August 18, 2009 ~ Meet our new little girl for the first time!
August 16 - 21, 2009 ~ First trip to Vladimir Russia
August 4, 2009 ~ Registered in Vladimir and recieved travel dates for first trip!
July 29, 2009 Mailed region specific docs
July 27, 2009 ~ Mailed Dossier
July 22, 2009 ~ Mailed Registration
July 16, 2009 ~ Recieve referral in Vladimir, Russia!
July 13, 2009 ~ Change adoption agency from CHI to EAC
June 9, 2009 ~ Paperwork still in Astrakhan. We are told there are no 2 to 4 year old girls in Moscow City Region
May 29, 2009 ~ Changing to Moscow City region
April 22, 2009 ~ We are told Moscow Dept of Education will be out of session June, July and August
March 30, 2009 ~ Completed and mailed all documents that will expire before October.
February 10, 2009 ~ Russia called to have us registered, but we had one expired document. Russia registers another family instead.
January 30, 2009 ~ All remaining registration documents sent to Astrakhan
January 15, 2009 ~ We are told we are "first on the list" at CHI in the Astrakhan region
November 22, 2008 ~ We do not have a referral, afterall. We are on the waiting list again. We won't travel until 2009.
October 9, 2008 ~ We are told the respresentative in Astrakhan is "out of town and will not be back until November". So, we will not be traveling to Russia in October.
September 23, 2008 ~ Sent remaining Astrakhan "region specific" documents to Moscow.
September 10, 2008 ~ Our new little referral!! CHI asks us to travel to Astrakhan in October! The little girl has Asian features, we don't know her age.
August 29, 2008 ~ Vladivostok "region specific" documents mailed to Moscow to be added to our registered Dossier.
August 18, 2008 ~ The little Asian girl in Vladivostok is adopted domestically. We are on the "waiting family" list again.
July 29th, 2008 ~ A set-back. The grandmother of the little girl shows interest in adopting her. We wait until September for the final decision.
April 28, 2008 ~ We Got our Referral Call from CHI! "A Little Girl 2 1/2 years old with Asain Features in the Region of Vladivostok"... Travel projected for September.
April 14, 2008 ~ Fed Ex Dossier to St. Louis
January 17, 2008 ~ Submit Application to Adopt from Russia - a girl between 24 -48 months
Fall 2007 ~ Meet with CHI to Discuss Details Involved
Fall 2006 ~ Contact Children's Hope International with Questions
March 2006 ~ Seriously Start Praying About Adoption
Fall 2005 ~ First Discuss Adoption