A Delay

Well, there is good news and bad. The good news is that there are lots of families adopting children from Kazakhstan right now. Which I hope means that there are fewer children and babies in the orphanages and more with families. The down side of that is that we will have to wait longer for our referral. I talked with one of the workers from our agency and she said that things are moving very slowly right now. We had hoped to travel before Christmas, but that is not looking like it will happen. She anticipates that it will be in the Spring some time. We are very excited and anxious.
We are not sure of the exact steps and timing of things once we get a referral. A lot depends on the age of the baby and how long it takes for us to get our Visa. We are keeping this blog so that everyone we know and care about can keep up with what is going on here and in Kazakhstan. Now that we're on our way with knowing how to do this, we will try to update it at least once per week. While we are in Kazakhstan, I plan to update it every day if I have internet access. If you have any questions, please feel free to post it as a comment. It may help me come up with topics to discuss on the blog when things are slow.