Court Date!

Woo-hoo!
We have a Court Date! We should be in front of a judge in Kemerovo in late June, and home with Owen in July. Still working on the travel details. There is a 10-Day Waiting Period after court that was being waived most of the time in this Region until about a month or so ago. Now they don't expect it to be waived. So if we try to fit everything into one trip it would mean a 27-day long trip to Russia. That is a looooong time. We were gone, what, six days on Trip 1, and I have to say it felt like we stepped into a time warp and came home about a year later. Or maybe that was just how much my body and mind aged in those six days. If I spent 27 days in a row there, I might just come back as a very, very old woman. We will probably do this in two trips. But...I know that coming home after Court will also be difficult. Leaving after Trip 1 was hard enough, but to be so close, so very close, and come home again without Owen will be painful.

But enough about pain and heartache. We have a date!! That is a very good thing. I was so worried about the judge going on vacation and leaving us hanging all summer. I wore the necklace I bought myself for Mother's Day that says "Mother" in Russian/Cyrillic for the first time yesterday as a good luck charm and it worked!