Round 2 "Ding Ding"

     Round 2 is now officially in the works.  Liz  has ran all over the place completing all of our paperwork hopefully for the last time.  The documents have been signed, apostilled, sealed, and delivered.  We just pray they are correct the first time this go around.  I have learned that nothing is official or set in stone in this process, but tentative travel dates will be traveling the first week of December, the week of Christmas, and sometime after the first of the year.  The third trip will bring Masha home permanently if everything goes as planned.  All we can do now is sit on our hands, wait, and see how it turns out as everything again is completely out of our control from this point forward.

 All the Papers to be Apostilled

     On a positive note we have been in constant contact with Masha over the last few months and talk to her almost daily.   We have had multiple conversations on her desire to come and her answer is always an emphatic, Yes.  Liz calls and actually talks to her, which is quite impressive at times, while I am lazy and just send text messages through the translator over the phone.  Masha has been very sweet and asks mostly about Carley and Keira.  We have even discussed changing her name when she comes home and have settled on Masha Nicole.  She wanted to change her whole name, but the girls put a big guilt trip on her as she will always be Masha to them so Masha Nicole it will be.  The next few months should be anything, but boring in our house as things in this process always seems to be in flux.   We are setting around 120 days until the first of December so let the countdown begin and pray for the Happy Ending that should have happened in Round 1.