I hate coming home to an empty mailbox. Especially when I'm waiting for an approval letter for Part 2 with immigration. Today proved to be no different when I arrived home at 5:00 to a mailbox with nothing in it. Mike and I calculated at dinner that three weeks have passed since we sent it in. Sigh.
At this point, none of us mind waiting until school actually gets out before we travel. It's a busy time of year and a complicated time to leave. However, knowing a date sure would help. The last two times we planned a trip to Colombia, we had months to prepare and make every little arrangement we possibly could. Not this time.
Well, the mail came late today, filling the mailbox with two items. A piece of junk mail and our approval with immigration! Yeah!!!!
Now we wait on word that the Article 5 letter is delivered to the U.S. Embassy there and that our adoptive son's visa is ready, and then....we can make plans to travel! (Still more tedious paperwork to get our own visas to travel for adoption purposes after we purchase our tickets--but at least it's another step closer, to seeing Julian again, and to bringing his brother home after all these years.)
About Me
- Rachelle D Alspaugh
- I've been married to my husband, Michael, for almost 25 years. I'm a mom to a biological son and an adopted son from Colombia, and I'm also a spiritual mom to my adopted son's older brother, who I claim as a son in my heart. I'm bilingual and love to work with and relate to Spanish-speaking children and families. I've been a teacher to students from all sorts of backgrounds and cultures for the last 20+ years. I'm also an author and a certified Biblical counselor. I'm in a new empty nest season in a new location far from where I raised my boys, so I'm definitely in a stage of rediscovering myself, my interests, and my purpose.
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