We spent the weekend filling out forms from the Department of Immigration, applying for a visa for Andres to enter the country, and then Leanne spent a couple of hours this morning trying to pay the fees for the application. The confusing thing about the paperwork is that you cannot actually apply for a visa … [Read More »]
Archives for 2009
Andres
We had the meeting with our contracted adoption assessor (social worker) today who had the information pack from DoCS (sent over by the orphanage in Colombia) with the details of our son, Andres who is currently just over 5 months old. Having the photo makes it very real now – this is very exciting, we … [Read More »]
We are adopting!
I got a call from DoCS at around 2pm this afternoon informing us that we have received an allocation of a child to adopt from an orphanage in Colombia. All along we had been told 18 – 24 months from the time our application was approved by Colombia – which would make it mid-year at … [Read More »]
Blog catch-up
I’ve been pretty slack over the past few months with keeping my blog updated. I do tend to micro-blog in twitter quite a bit (see link and info in sidebar on the right), but that’s just quick updates on what I’m doing rather than lengthy discussions about topics. I have taken quite a lot of … [Read More »]
Annoying Helicopters
Had a couple of helicopters buzzing around all morning. Then late morning, the Channel 7 helicopter hovered out over Chatswood for quite a few minutes – I have no idea what it was doing there, but it was a bit annoying when I was trying to get some work done.