Monday, March 30, 2009

Exciting News

Today I received travel dates to go see Maks. I leave April 7th and will meet him on April 10th! YEA! I am so excited, nervous, and scared. I am sure all normal reactions. I have been busy trying to work all day, find airline tickets, and get my visa application sent off. Mom and I spent a couple hours tonight going over visa information and hopefully get it sent off in morning. I plan on getting up early so I have plenty of time to get everything done tomorrow. So I better get to bed. I will try to follow up with a longer update soon.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Filling my time







So here are two pictures of what I have been doing for the past 4-5 weeks on the weekends trying to fill my time while I am waiting on travel dates for my first trip. So as you can see I am pretty much done with Asia and Africa, I started working on South America last weekend, and also have North America to do which will not be too difficult, Australia and then Europe. Europe is going to be very difficult d/t all the tiny countries. I am learning a lot. Did you know there is a small country between France and Spain named Andorra? Not me, but I do now.
I tried to stick with primary colors, and to help save me money my very supportive neighbor Paula gave me her green paint to use. At times it is challenging to make sure the same colors are not touching, but so far so good. I have developed a plan when painting, I first label several countries with the color I am going to use, this way I can paint more then one country at a time. I also like to paint all the yellow ones first b/c yellow is easier to cover up then say red. This has seemed to help really speed things along. Also I have been comparing my map to google maps so I can make sure I am not missing anything important. So occasionally I am drawing in countries free hand.
As I have said previously I am so excited for Maks to see his room. While I am painting I imagine sitting with Maks and talking about the different countries, where he is from, and where we should plan our next trip so we can mark it on his map. If I ever move, I think I am going to have to cut out the wall and take it with me. Well I am really looking forward to my first trip, when it comes.

Ginger



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My Journey

Back in December I decided that I wanted to adopt. I have known since I was very young that it was something I wanted to do, and that feeling has never changed. I then decided I would like to adopt internationally and after much research decided that Russia was the country for me. So in January I sent in my application and began the long process of collecting various documents, pictures, and had my home assessed to see if it would be a good environment for a child. This is all complete and my dossier was submitted to Russia the first week of June and I am now awaiting a referal of an infant or toddler boy. This wait now can take 2-6 months. I would love to share this journey with my family and friends, and will definately need your support between trips when I am missing my little boy and our new family member. My neices and nephews are so excited to have a cousin on the Protzman side. I know my little boy will be so loved and I feel so blessed to be able to give my child a home and family he may not of had otherwise.

So feel free to leave any posts with questions and comments and I look forward to reading and answering them. I will try and keep things updated regularly, and slowly add things to this blog as I learn how to do so.

Welcome to my blog.

Ginger