Preparing...again

It has been 2 1/2 weeks since we returned from our first trip to Russia. We miss the kids and can't wait to go back. At the same time we are busily preparing Part 2 of our foreign dossier (including doctor visits, accountant visits, letters, forms, mortgage reports, background checks, 2 different kinds of fingerprints, a home visit, notarizing, appostilling,...) Once all that is completed, which will hopefully be within a week, we will submit everything to Russia and wait for a court date. The court date determines when we will get to go back. During the second trip, we will go to court, then spend 2 weeks or more in Russia or somewhere nearby while we wait to bring the kids home.

In the meantime, there will be furniture to make, rooms to paint, clothes and household items to purchase for the kids, books to read, rules to post, items to label in English, resources to compile...I'm not sure what people mean when they talk about the "wait" between trips. When will we have time to "wait"? I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining, though - all of this is FUN when we picture Dima and Dasha and remember what it is all for.

We have been incredibly blessed by friends and family who have contributed to this process! The majority of expenses for our first trip were paid for by donations, and we are eternally grateful for the investment many of you have made in the lives of our children. We would love to thank you all individually, but thus far we do not have records identifying individual donors to the Miller Adoption Fund. So if you are reading this and we haven't thanked you personally, please know that your contributions have made all the difference in the world.

Some have asked how they might contribute to the second trip and the remainder of the process. Donations can be sent to the following:

Miller Adoption Fund/Robert E. Miller
First National Bank of Huntsville
PO Box 659
Huntsville, TX 77342-0659

Checks can be made out to 'Miller Adoption Fund/Robert E. Miller'

Thank you again for reading and praying and keeping up with us, and contributing in whatever way you are led. We hope to have our family together within a couple months!

Love,
Karen