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If I know you or you are in the adoption community and would like to follow along with our blog while we are in Vietnam, please post here with your email and I will get you the password.
ps: the password is not changing, so if you already have it... that is all you need :)
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A special place for us to record the daily events of life as we follow our hearts to Vietnam.
What time is it in Vung Tau, Vietnam....where our Meg is?
Come and visit our family blog
Map of Vietnam
Resources
- Provide-n-ce
- Vietnamese Food and Cooking - VietWorld
- Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity
- Families with Children from Vietnam
- Adopt Vietnam website
- Tips for adoptive parents (The 'questions')
- Travel Memoir - International (Vietnam) adoption
- Many links related to Vietnam adoption
- International Adoption E-zine
- If you lived here: A novel (Vietnam adoption themed novel)
- Common sense has left the building
- Video clip - example of orphanage life in VN
- Book called "Because they Waited" about adopting older infants and children
- a4everfamily.org
- Adoption Buzz
Our Timeline
April 6, 2007 - mailed our application to our agency. We now go on a waiting list until a spot becomes available on their regular waiting list.
April 2007 - we begin sharing our news with family and friends
April 20, 2007 - 1st home study meeting.
May 5, 2007 - 2nd home study meeting. In Home.
May 19, 2007 - 3rd home study meeting. In Home.
June 15, 2007 - moved from waiting list to primary list with our agency... time to get our dossier prepared!
July 6, 2007 - 4th & final homestudy. In Home. Homestudy will be mailed to our agency on Monday! Then it is sent off for Ministry Approval (which takes 4-6 wks). We also mailed all our dossier doc's to our adoption agency yesterday. HURRAY!
July 17, 2007 - Agency sent off our Dossier to Vietnam.
August 7, 2007 - received Ministry Approval! Officially awaiting child proposal!
Mid August 2007 - Logged In!
Mid March, 2008 - #7
May 16, June 5, June 20 2008 - #6
July 22, 2008 - #5
Sept 3, 2008 - #3 or #4?
Oct 2, 2008 - #3
Dec 9, Dec 31, 2008 - #2
Jan 15, 2009 - #1 (YAY!!!)
Jan 17, 2009 - updated police records
Jan 23, 2009 - updated VN medical records
Feb 20, 2009 - Referral Day!!!
Fly to Vietnam: Friday, June 5th!!!
June 7, 2009 - Meg is in our arms forever!!!
June 26, 2009 - Our Giving & Recieving Ceremony
June 30, 2009 - Applied for Vietnamese Passport
July 2, 2009 - Applied for Meg's Canadian Passport (last step!)
July 7, 2009 - Leave Vietnam, home early morn July 8th in Toronto!
April 2007 - we begin sharing our news with family and friends
April 20, 2007 - 1st home study meeting.
May 5, 2007 - 2nd home study meeting. In Home.
May 19, 2007 - 3rd home study meeting. In Home.
June 15, 2007 - moved from waiting list to primary list with our agency... time to get our dossier prepared!
July 6, 2007 - 4th & final homestudy. In Home. Homestudy will be mailed to our agency on Monday! Then it is sent off for Ministry Approval (which takes 4-6 wks). We also mailed all our dossier doc's to our adoption agency yesterday. HURRAY!
July 17, 2007 - Agency sent off our Dossier to Vietnam.
August 7, 2007 - received Ministry Approval! Officially awaiting child proposal!
Mid August 2007 - Logged In!
Mid March, 2008 - #7
May 16, June 5, June 20 2008 - #6
July 22, 2008 - #5
Sept 3, 2008 - #3 or #4?
Oct 2, 2008 - #3
Dec 9, Dec 31, 2008 - #2
Jan 15, 2009 - #1 (YAY!!!)
Jan 17, 2009 - updated police records
Jan 23, 2009 - updated VN medical records
Feb 20, 2009 - Referral Day!!!
Fly to Vietnam: Friday, June 5th!!!
June 7, 2009 - Meg is in our arms forever!!!
June 26, 2009 - Our Giving & Recieving Ceremony
June 30, 2009 - Applied for Vietnamese Passport
July 2, 2009 - Applied for Meg's Canadian Passport (last step!)
July 7, 2009 - Leave Vietnam, home early morn July 8th in Toronto!
Music
Here is a list of music I've been listening to and finding along the way. Music that reminds us of this journey, of what we have to look forward to.
When love takes you in... Stephen Curtis Chapman / I'll take care of you... Dixie Chicks / The promise... Tracy Chapman / Swept Away... Geoff Moore / With arms wide open... Creed / Lullaby... Dixie Chicks / I'll Stand by you... The Pretenders/ Answer... Sarah McLachlan / Little Wonders... Rob Thomas from "Meet the Robinson's" soundtrack/ I will... Patty Stevenson / When God Made You... New Song/ You'll be in my heart... Phil Collins / No place that far... Sara Evans / Smile... Chris Rice / Somewhere out there... Linda Ronsdadt / Love can move mountains... Celine Dion / I knew I loved you... Savage Garden / Someone like you... Van Morrison / Bless the broken road... Rascal Flatts / Candle on the Water... Pete's Dragon Soundtrack / Better Together... Jack Johnson / To make you feel my love... Billy Joel / I can only imagine... Mercy Me / You're where I belong... Trisha Yearwood / Somewhere over the Rainbow... Isreal Kamakawiwo / To get me to you... Lila McCann / The Luckiest... Ben Folds / The one I Love... David Grey / All I ask of You... Phantom of the Opera / Sweet, Sweet Baby... Michelle Featherstone / Innocence... Avril Lavigne / I will be here... Stephen Curtis Chapman.
When love takes you in... Stephen Curtis Chapman / I'll take care of you... Dixie Chicks / The promise... Tracy Chapman / Swept Away... Geoff Moore / With arms wide open... Creed / Lullaby... Dixie Chicks / I'll Stand by you... The Pretenders/ Answer... Sarah McLachlan / Little Wonders... Rob Thomas from "Meet the Robinson's" soundtrack/ I will... Patty Stevenson / When God Made You... New Song/ You'll be in my heart... Phil Collins / No place that far... Sara Evans / Smile... Chris Rice / Somewhere out there... Linda Ronsdadt / Love can move mountains... Celine Dion / I knew I loved you... Savage Garden / Someone like you... Van Morrison / Bless the broken road... Rascal Flatts / Candle on the Water... Pete's Dragon Soundtrack / Better Together... Jack Johnson / To make you feel my love... Billy Joel / I can only imagine... Mercy Me / You're where I belong... Trisha Yearwood / Somewhere over the Rainbow... Isreal Kamakawiwo / To get me to you... Lila McCann / The Luckiest... Ben Folds / The one I Love... David Grey / All I ask of You... Phantom of the Opera / Sweet, Sweet Baby... Michelle Featherstone / Innocence... Avril Lavigne / I will be here... Stephen Curtis Chapman.
Names we chose for you!
Meg Linh Bao Thy
About Us
- Leslie & Shaune
- Ontario, Canada
- We are the parents of Keaton (8) and Chloe (5). We live in Ontario Canada and have been married 10 yrs. We are very excited to move forward as we expand our family and adopt our little Meggie from Vietnam. It can't happen soon enough! SOON, SOON... please make it SOON!
25 comments:
Well, we don't exactly know each other but we did meet once at a crop long ago and i've been following your journey since the beginning. I can't wait to read about the wonderful adventure you are about to embark upon to bring home your newest family member!
My thoughts will be with you all over the next little while, for those of you traveling and those left behind for this part of the journey.
Good luck!
I'm not sure how I found your blog but I have been following it for awhile. I have found your adoption journey especially interesting. My husband and I had thought about international adoption at one point when we found out we would not be able to have more children after the birth of our first child. I would love to be able to follow your upcoming journey.
My email is emmaswan22@hotmail.com
Hi Leslie, Carol and Mike here. Would love to keep following along - email is michael.thompson057@sympatico.ca
hey leslie! i already have the password, but if it is going to be different...please send it my way!
I would love the password if you feel comfortable sharing. I have been following your journey ever since you started; we've been home with our one and only child from Vietnam since last June--perhaps you'll have your child on the day we first held ours in our arms!
Kelley
wildwatergirl@yahoo.com
(if you do not feel comfortable sharing the password, I understand). Congratulations!!!
Am interested in adoption and would love to keep up with your amazing journey.
Good luck!
Katie B.
katie.baron2@verizon.net
I've been checking in every now and then for a long time and so happy for you! I brought my daughter home from Vietnam last December. I have so many wonderful memories of my trip, and I would love to follow along. I have a private blog. Please let me know if you'd like access. My email is julieann_b@yahoo.com
I have been following your journey for some time now. We have a daughter from VN adopted in 2001. I am very happy for all the new families and would love to read about your adventure in VN...it is an amazing country...and wish you the best of luck as you finally gather your new baby daughter in your arms!--Maureen
I would love your password. I read your blog on google reader. Thank you!
Lina
lina19 @ rocketmail.com
I haven't visited your blog is so long and didn't realize you received your referral. Congratulations! I'd love to follow along on your journey to Vietnam. My e-mail is blair1849@rogers.com.
Congratulations again,
Dayna
Sorry ...I forgot to leave my e-mail address...maureen.macneil@ns.sympatico.ca
Hi,
We've just started our journey to adopt from vietnam. We already have adopted a daughter from China and if your journey is anything like ours was, you'll have an amazing time.
Please include our email on your password list.
Thanks, Kirsten
kkotsopoulos@mtsinai.on.ca
ourgoldenchild (at) gmail (dot) com
So excited to follow you on your journey!!! Getting close now.
Jess
Hi Leslie,
I would love to follow along to read about your trip!
Megan
bluefairy099@yahoo.ca
http://ourvietnameseprincess.blogspot.com/index.html
Hi Leslie :)
You know me from Lifetime Moments and we emailed way back when about adoption... we adopted domestic and would love to follow you magical trip to vietnam!!!
kjurasevichatgmaildotcom!
Hi Leslie - I'm not sure if my last comment posted - just in case - would love to be able to follow your blog as you go to Vietnam - our daughter is also from Vung Tau II so it's very close to our hearts! Best wishes for your journey!
Janice
janiceheise@hotmail.com
I have enjoyed reading your blog immensely throughout the last year or so. We have adopted a little boy also from Vung Tau 11, now 11 months old, through the same agency. It would be special for me to relive our journey again through yours.
Thanks for considering sharing yout passsword, if you feel comfortable.
Enjoy! Have a "ca phe soo da" for me (the best iced coffe ever)!
Jay
maccormick@rogers.com
Hello,
We're waiting for travelling to Vietnam to bring home our son. We already have a daughter who was born in China.
As we soon (hopefully) will get our traveldates fixed I would love to read about your trip! Thanks for inviting me!
Good luck and have a nice journey!
Anette
karin_anette@hotmail.com
Have been following your blog for quite some time and am thrilled for your family that the time has come to go get Meg.
My husband and I adopted our 1st child internationally (from Russia) in 2000 and our 2nd child domestically (Ontario) in 2004. Would love to continue to follow along on your journey. My e-mail is pklooster@golden.net
Good morning,
My husband & I just reached the primary list a month ago and our paperwork has been with the ministry now for 2 weeks. All this after starting our adoption journey in January 2008.We feel we are finally moving along after being on the secondary list for 10 months and we hope to be travelling in 12 months. Reading the journey of others confirms why we made the decision to adopt and that it is worth all the wait.
If you don't mind too much, we would love to share with you, your adventure of bringing home your newest family member.
And we will be sharing it also with our two boys.
All the best,
Caroline, Mark, Alexandre, Lucas (caroline_ducharme@sympatico.ca)
Good morning,
My husband & I just reached the primary list a month ago and our paperwork has been with the ministry now for 2 weeks. All this after starting our adoption journey in January 2008.We feel we are finally moving along after being on the secondary list for 10 months and we hope to be travelling in 12 months. Reading the journey of others confirms why we made the decision to adopt and that it is worth all the wait.
If you don't mind too much, we would love to share with you, your adventure of bringing home your newest family member.
And we will be sharing it also with our two boys.
All the best,
Caroline, Mark, Alexandre, Lucas (caroline_ducharme@sympatico.ca)
please please please. we are waiting for the password and so very excited. best of luck to all of you. it is an awesome feeling and experience.
angie
Hi there. You don't know me, but I've been follwoing your journey for a while now. I live in the UK (where adoptions from VN haven't been going on for a while now, same situation the US is now in) but I fell in love with VN and the children and was determined to read about other people's experiences of adoption to give myself hope and knowledge of the process.
Because of what is happening now there are barely nay people currently in the process, but I found your blog and was delighted to be able to follow along as I plan to adopt in the near future. I do have a Google blogger account but I've forgotten my password (I know, very short term memory) and hope to set up a blog for myself soon. I'd love to continue reading your blog :) my email is hannah30391@btinternet.com or h.blackmore@live.co.uk.
Thanks so much. x
Hi there!
We certainly don't know each other, but I am an AP from Vietnam (Jan 2008-Langson). Since the U.S is not able to get it together to go back to Vietnam, I am so happy to watch the blogs of the ongoing Vietnam adoptions. I would love to watch you meet your little one.
Thanks!
dezire2adpt@yahoo.com
www.hambaby.blogspot.com
A :)
I have no clue wheather you will see this now or not. SOmehow I missed this post or could be because it's been a few weeks since I have had time to check.
I wish you so well I've followed you since you were a Garden Girl on Two Peas.
My email is beckym117@gmail.com
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