After 5 months of waiting and waiting, we received word this morning that our little girls are officially ready to come home. Their visas are confirmed and processed and no more paperwork or red tape. The time has come to head to Yambol to bring our girls to Vancouver!
To say we are ecstatic is an understatement. We have been blessed with more love, support, prayers and well wishes that anyone could wish or hope for. Waiting is tough and you just never know what kind of hoops the government is going to make you jump through. Thankfully it is behind us...now onto parenthood (the tough part!)
I cannot emphasize how fortunate we are to have the team of people helping us to make this adoption a reality. Everyone at Choices, especially Marie (who I think has been there from day one), Kirsten...and Rachel and Holly...I am not one who deals with uncertainty too well and this team really helped me get through some times when I was probably a tad bit upset and/or bitchy but just needed some comforting words. Thanks so much to you all...
Most of all -- having Galia and Rosi there in Bulgaria to help us to communicate with Yuli and Fana over the past 5 months...especially Galia who has helped to bring our sweet Fana out of her shell and keep our little princess Yuli positive -- this has been nothing short of priceless to us. From day one we have felt that Galia is our guardian angel. We have hundreds of pictures and videos from Galia showing us how well the girls are doing. And our rock star lawyer in Sofia -- Nikolay is the BEST!!! I don't know if other international adoptive parents have this kind of access to their children as they wait and wait, but Gunther and I thank our lucky stars for what we have had in this journey!
Our friends and family have been an ongoing source of support and love!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are planning to leave on the 6th of Oct and back on the 12th. That is going to be one interesting plane ride home! Thanks to everyone for everything!!! We'll keep in touch as we head over there -- LOVE TO ALL!!!!
Cheryl and Gunther
