This is a place where I can now write about anything I'd like. Nina is pretty sick of listening to my political views, so you can expect to hear a bit from my perspective. Additionally, we always have something interesting going on, as well as my perception and views of pediatric clinical trials.
Many of you are now aware that Nina and I are going through the international adoption process. We will be adopting a young child from Russia. Our hope is as young as possible, which would be 8 months old (Russia requires that family and Russians have a first chance at adopting a child before international adoption can occur). We expect to have all of our documents and home study completed during the month of April. Then, we will wait for a referal for a child, and we've been told that this should come very quickly. It's great to have something to look forward to. Eden always wanted a sibling, and we had looked into adoption in the weeks prior to her diagnosis (obviously that was put on hold for a few years).
The other big news for us right now is the pending move into our new home. We spent all weekend moving out of the house we have been renting for the last 20 months. The remodel gone crazy took a long time - much of it because we effectively shut it done for several months while we were on the east coast fighting Eden's disease. It will be very nice living in a familiar, but new home. We lived in the house for 4 years prior to starting the remodel. It truely is a house of love and we are very happy with how it's turning out. The house is however not completed - we've got everything moved into one bedroom that is complete, and the rest of the house will be done in the coming weeks. Eden's room now has built in bunk beds (actually built into the wall) - why bunk beds, hmmm - we'll, maybe we'll just come back from Russia with two kids - we just don't know. We are open to siblings, but it just needs to be a good fit.
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Many thanks for everyone's support.
