We are now in The Waiting Game. Which is not the same as the Hunger Games, although we are a tad hungry at the moment… We heard from our agency that our dossier is waiting in Mexico City to be signed by the new director who is apparently starting today. With that in mind, we’re […]
Posts Tagged ‘international adoption’
The Waiting Game with Audio
Posted in Adoption, Mexico, Referral, tagged adoption, dossier, international adoption, Mexico, Mexico adoption, nesting, siesta points on February 4, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Feliz 2013!
Posted in Adoption, Mexico, Uncategorized, tagged adoption, dossier, international adoption, Mexico, nopales on January 21, 2013 | 6 Comments »
Feliz 2013 and Happy New Year to all! It’s a new year and hopefully the year we’re going to bring our kids home, woo hoo! Here is a new picture to show the progress of our nopales. For our most recent adoption update, we were informed that our dossier (our big adoption file) was approved […]
FBI, FedEx & Photos Oh My!
Posted in Adoption, Paperwork, tagged adoption, apostille, dossier, FBI, FedEx, fingerprints, international adoption, Mexico on November 14, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Our international adoption adventures have allowed us to become very familiar with FedEx. Too familiar. We need frequent flyer miles or stock in the company, because we’ve been spending more time at the FedEx store lately than anywhere else! Allow us to explain (well this is our blog after all…) we’re in the very last step […]
The Nitty-Gritty
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adoption, consulate, international adoption, Mexican beach pebbles, nopales, passport on September 20, 2012 | 4 Comments »
This is the week that the adoption process started to break us. All the forms, all the endless copies of things notarized and official this and that. When you go to a doctor’s office twice with a notary and then have to go back again for blood-work and then again for a drug test and […]
Congratulations, it’s a… pile of adoption paperwork!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adoption agency, Angel, Family Nopal, home study, international adoption, Mexico adoption, Nopal, nopales, nopalitos, paperwork, pencas on June 14, 2012 | 11 Comments »
This is our inaugural Family Nopal blog entry. The crowd roars! Oh wait, that’s just our dog barking at the mailman. Well anyway, we’re excited to start blogging about this adventure into international adoption and our road to becoming parents, which is now just a glimmer in our adoption agency’s eyes. Until our future children […]