Christmas in St. Petersburg!

приветствовать Welcome all to our adoption journey blog. After years of waiting, our time has arrived!!!!!!! I have finally moved from being a blog stalker to a real blogger. Before you all question me about the blog’s name “Baby Steppes Home”…I just wanted to say… I did not spell “steps” wrong. Cary came up with the idea (as per John – “the brilliant idea”) of using “Steppes” in the title based on The Great Steppes which describe the terrain located in southeast Russia. (Thanks again Cary!)

Now on to the purpose of this blog.

It’s a Boy! YEAH!!!!! We will be leaving on December 20th travelling to St. Petersburg to meet the little boy who will become our son. Our plan is to update the blog with the daily events while we are in Russia. Unfortunately we cannot post any pictures of him until he is officially adopted, so expect to see many pictures of John, myself and all the sights of Russia. In the interim I will continue to update the blog daily with any details we receive with regard to our travels and anything else that comes to mind.

I want to thank everyone who has supported us through this process. It has been a long haul. We started the process in 2005 and were “paper ready” to adopt from China by June 2006. After two years of waiting with no end in site, in March 2008 we decided to throw our names on the list for Russia. As you all know it has been emotionally draining. Although we know it is not over yet, we wanted to let everyone know how grateful we are to have you in our lives and thank you for your great support.

Please feel free to post any comments you like on the blog.

Talk to you soon!
Jodi