We’re now in a phase of getting ready to get ready, a sort of pre-ready if you will. Our dossier is now in Hermosillo which is great. Our lawyer through our adoption agency has scheduled an appointment for us to meet the social workers at the local DIF (National System for the Full Development of the Family, or the Sistema Nacional de Desarollo Integral de la Familia) office in Hermosillo. So we’re headed out to Mexico this week, hooray! Our lawyer thinks it will be good for the social service folks to see us in person and put a face to the name and file. We are counting on Edgar’s charm to get us through this one and also his ability to speak Spanish really well. Siana will just make sure she smiles a lot and will use her Spanish when appropriate. Which means when she thinks she has enough words and grammar about a particular topic to pitch in!
We’re excited about this trip because it means something is happening. We’re not sure how far off a referral is, but we’re hoping that by at least meeting us the social workers will move our file to the top of whatever pile it’s in. Fingers crossed and we’re glad it’s in Hermosillo because we can stay with relatives and of course if you’ve read our blog you know we love Hermosillo so it’s a win win. Tacos galore…
On the home front we are getting ready to get ready by trying to figure out ways to make more space for kids. We decided to move some things around and create a living room space for kid stuff to go (when we eventually have kid stuff) so we went to IKEA and bought a shelf unit that we could use as cubby space to collect toys, crayons and other random things we know will show up at some point. Edgar put the furniture together with Angel’s help.
And now we have plenty of room for kid stuff! We’re purposely leaving it empty to welcome the future items.
On the nopal front we realized this week that they are suddenly sprouting tons of tiny nopales! We took these pictures last weekend and in one week they grew so much!
Last week
This week
And we can see many more nopalitos on their way!
More updates next week after our Mexico trip!
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