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Thursday, March 23, 2006

About Kazakhstan


Kazakhstan is a large, former Soviet Republic located south of Russia, west of China, and east of the Caspian Sea. Its large land mass, approximately four times the size of Texas, makes it the ninth largest country in the world. However, it has a relatively small population, about 16 million. The population is made up of; 53% Kazak, 30% Russian, 3% Ukranian, 2% Uzbeckistan, and 2% German. Most of the population is Muslim - 47%, and 44% is Russian Orthodox.
The official language is Kazak, most people also speak Russian. Kazakhstan was under the USSR ruling from 1936 – 1991. During this time of the communist ruling, the Kazak language was banned, forcing everyone to speak Russian. Since Kazakhstan became independent in 1991, the Kazak language has struggled to come up to date.

This country consists of cold winters and hot summers.

The currency is the Tenge.

The average annual income is $1197 US Dollars a year.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Waiting Is The Worst

We can't even find the words to tell you how hard it is after being so busy up to now with all the paperwork and then to have it all stop and be in wait mode. There are so many things left to do but not knowing gender or age makes it difficult to complete i.e. registry, clothes, toys and so on. We've been following the blogs of other waiters and it seems that once a referral is received the travel dates come very soon afterwards, as soon as a week. Wow, we will be busier than ever if that happens to us. We welcome that but as Keith will tell you I'm a prefectionist and always like time to be prepared, he on the other hand, is the winger in the family.

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Thursday, March 09, 2006

Keith, Mary & Dudley Burner


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Follow Along On Our Journey

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

We were just informed that Kazakhstan has stopped all families from adopting two children at once, no good reason was given and that really saddens us since we were approved and ready for two, however, we are going to bring one child home and that helps soften the blow a bit.
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Saturday, March 4, 2006

Today Keith and I went to Babies R Us and ordered furniture for the babies room. We bought two cribs, changing table and an armoire. The model "White Madison Collection". We were able to bring the changing table, armoire and matresses home today but the two cribs are on order and should be in at the end of March. I was telling Keith it still doesn't feel real to me, I guess it will once we are given pictures and can see their little faces.
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Wednesday, March 1, 2006

As we wait for our referral there are so many things to do. We need to start purchasing items to take over to Kazakhstan for our babies. I've started to prepare a list of things so that Keith and I can begin to gather them all and to see if we can get our packing under the weight restricitons and with not to many bags. I've never been known for packing light so Keith will have to train me a bit since he's so good at it. Of course neither of us have spent 6 weeks away from home so this should be very interesting.

The Adoption Process

Keith and I started our adoption process back in July of 2005 at which time we signed with World Partners Adoption, Inc. and then the fun began.....Mountains of paperwork, Immigration Application, Home Study with Datz, Physician's Reports, Finger Printing etc. etc. etc. I have to thank Keith for all his hard work as he made sure everything was in on time and meticulously done, my hero, my husband and my best friend!!!

Keith and I are currently waiting on a referral from Kazakhstan for two infant children and we hope to hear something by the end of March or beginning of April. You can count on being the first to know when that happens as we will be screaming from the roof top, oh yeah, and updating our web-site!!!

The next step after the referral will be travel dates and that we hope will be sometime between May and July. Our stay in Kazakhstan will be for a minimum of six weeks, during that time we will be bonding with our children a few hours every day at the baby house, court appearances to allow us to adopt these children and arrange for our children's new birth certificates, file court documents, apply for passports and exit visas to travel home.