A TWIG CLOSER TO THE NEST

Fantastic news to start our 3 year wedding anniversary today - just got word from TDH that our Ministry Approval arrived on Sept 7, and that she has since sent out our Dossier package to Vietnam on September 20. Wow!!!! We are so excited to be moving forward again!!! We are now on the official and final list; for a proposal of a child of either gender between 0 to 36 months old. Currently, we are in the line up range of 75-80 people ahead of us - as for a time frame, and due to our new circumstance, we will not expect a proposal to come for another 2 years, which will work out perfectly.

SCRAMBLED EGGS

The scrambling is over, the panic is no more…the bomb has been dropped and our AP and Agency have been notified that we are pregnant. To my surprise, all seemed thrilled, phew! I wasn’t sure how that was going to go over, but I can now sigh with relief and lower my anxiety. I gather it is because we have continued to pursue our adoption plan regardless of conceiving. In accordance to Ministry request, we will need to have an 18 month delay been the age of children. I think this is sounds perfectly logical and appropriate for our family. Hope I hear word from TDH soon – it has been awhile!

ONE EGG IN THE BASKET, ONE IN THE OVEN

Well, the unplanned, unthinkable yet unbelievable has occurred. We have been given word that we are going to become parents in April 2011. That’s right – I’m going to be mommy sooner than we thought, a dream come true - literally! To make matters more interesting for my fellow blog-reading folk, here’s the kicker… the baby we are expecting is not from overseas, in fact, it is not even Vietnamese - but rather growing and kicking inside my belly!

Yup – were miraculously pregnant, go figure! Just over 3 months and counting. The man above sure works in mysterious ways and that stork of his must have been on steroids. All the same, we are delighted and excited. Wow – imagine that, biologically pregnant and paper pregnant all at the same time…bet that’s an oddity.

Do not dismay, we are still going ahead with our plan to adopt from Vietnam. This changes nothing, well, it certainly changes things, but not in our commitment to bring home our little Dragonfly. We will, however, need to delay things somewhat (obviously) and decide when and how to tell the agency. We will also need to revise our paperwork to reflect our new family circumstance.