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Yay! The man from the ministry who rips off the bits of ribbon is back from holiday...

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suejonez · 15/08/2006 17:36

For those few of you who have been following my snail-paced adoption. The man from the Ministry of Foreigh Affairs has found my file stuck behind the back of a radiator, dusted it off and passed it on to the next bureaucrat in line. So its progressed to the Ministry of Education. Hurrah!

Now I wait for a travel date and confirmation of where in Kazakhstan I'll be travelling to - most likely Ust-Kamengorsk in October 2006.

This is the first good news I've had since my file disappered in early June!

Hurrah! (Have I said that already? - what the heck I'm going to say it again...) Hurrah!

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suejonez · 26/08/2006 15:18

Richmond council have been pretty efficient so far - they do more ICA's than any other council in the country. I think the update should only be an hour - just making sure my circumstances haven't changed - fingers crossed.

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suejonez · 26/08/2006 15:18

Richmond council have been pretty efficient so far - they do more ICA's than any other council in the country. I think the update should only be an hour - just making sure my circumstances haven't changed - fingers crossed.

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suejonez · 26/08/2006 15:19

Yes it is misdee - but I'm not absolutely certain that it'll be a boy yet! I've been told 90% likely to be a boy of aroun 1yr old, but still a chance that it'll be a girl. I'll know by the end of Septmeber.

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ScummyMummy · 26/08/2006 15:20

So exciting.

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suejonez · 26/08/2006 15:21

and terrifying...

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misdee · 26/08/2006 15:22

I will hold onto this boy doll now, dont make a descision yet, and by the end of sept i should have a few girls finsihed as well hopefully. make a decision once you know.

oh how exciting and wonderful. makes me all schubbly inside.

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suejonez · 26/08/2006 15:43

thanks Misdee. Don't suppose you could dress him in a Welsh rugby shirt?!

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misdee · 26/08/2006 16:48

i will have a hunt around, see what i can do

KristinaM · 31/08/2006 00:22

well sue??????

suejonezispanicking · 01/09/2006 00:52

well I've been told unoffically (so don't tell a soul as it's subject to change) that I should be ready to travel on 19th. Of September. EEK! No Dana Johnson for me - will be out of the country hopefully.

arfishymeau · 01/09/2006 01:19

At the risk of blowing my cover

Serdechnye pozdravleniya! Schastlivogo puti!

Yay SueJ. Great news

suejonezispanicking · 01/09/2006 07:02

Is too soon, too sooon!

Issymum · 01/09/2006 15:09

That's incredibly exciting news SueJonez! If you can fit it in before then, let's meet up at Waterloo and I'll give you that adoption book. If you're interested, I can email you (I think) via Contact Another Talker.

KristinaM · 01/09/2006 15:57

great news sue. keep us posted

Californifrau · 01/09/2006 17:00

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Twiglett · 01/09/2006 17:05

October? ... what? ... 4 or 5 weeks away????

many congratulations .. how extremely extremely exciting

suejoneziscalmernow · 01/09/2006 17:33

No current eta is 19th Sept - 2 weeks (and a bit)

Only have to get my CRB check back
New medical
New employers letter
Update homestudy
Book flights
Book hotel and apartment
Arrange currency and wire to Kaz
Get all aforementioned documents notarised and apostilled (didn't even know what that meant until I start this journey 2.5 years ago)

Oh and pack...

suejoneziscalmernow · 01/09/2006 17:35

Californifrau - I was OK with the Russian until the hedgehog bit... if this is adoptive labour it bloody hurts and could well be the longest labour in history!

suejoneziscalmernow · 01/09/2006 17:35

Where do I get the gas and air?

suejoneziscalmernow · 01/09/2006 17:36

Issymum - yes would be very interested in borrowing your books will try to make time. CAT me thanks.

ocd · 01/09/2006 17:36

sue i havent followed yourstory at all
tle me why khazakstan?
well done it is exciting

shimmy21 · 01/09/2006 17:40

Hi Sue - you'll know you are really in labour if you start to feel sick, can't sit down, eat or sleep and are regularly swearing under your breathe to yourself. Sounds like you are well on the way

So excited for you! Is there any way you'll be able to blog us once you are in KZ???
We will all want a blow by blow account.

suejoneziscalmernow · 01/09/2006 17:41

it would take me so long to explain why Kazakhstan - there are many reasons. The most compelling one for me is probably the bonding process - you can't just meet your child and walk away with them - you have to spend 2 weeks visiting daily before they will let you apply to adopt then and other couple of weeks "cooling off period" after court also with 4hr visits every day. By the time you leave the country, you have a child which is at least familiar with you and hopefully trusts you to a degree as well and has done it on his own turf (as it were).

suejoneziscalmernow · 01/09/2006 17:47

yes I have set up a blog - am tweaking it now and with post end of the weekend, though I'm not sure how good the interent connections are going to be, I'm going to try.

quokka · 01/09/2006 17:49

love the name changes SJ