Joint Council

The Joint Council is one of the oldest and largest child welfare organizations, Joint Council on International Children’s Services is the lead voice on inter country children’s services. With a mission to advocate on behalf of children in need of permanent, safe and loving families, Joint Council promotes ethical child welfare practices, strengthens professional standards and educates adoptive families, social service professionals and government representatives throughout the world. International child welfare agencies, child advocacy groups, parent support groups and international medical clinics choose membership in Joint Council as a means to address the critical issue of parent less children and creating permanent solutions.

Right now, they are working on getting the new memorandum in place to open Vietnam back up to the US for international adoptions. You can find out more information and what you can do to help by visiting their website. http://www.jcics.org/Vietnam.htm This may not help us get Nieman but it will help future families who want to adopt from Vietnam to be able to do so.

People are always telling me I should call different government officials to help with our adoption but this is something you guys can do to help other families and maybe us down the road.

Merry Christmas if I don't post before then.

No news

There is no news, no news at all. Why is there no news, no one knows why. The director of our agency is in Vietnam now trying to get an answer as to why we can't come get the baby. He is trying many different things to get the answer. We may not know if these things he is doing will work for several weeks.

In other news, Christmas is 16 days away and we have no presents bought. We have not put up the tree yet. I have some decorations up but it's very unorganized. Chris is working on the cards. I hope to get it all together this week. This is why Christmas bothers me so much. We are always so last minute with everything and I HATE being unorganized.

Well, much to do so talk to you all later.

Happy Birthday to Chris

I want to wish my wonderful husband, Happy Birthday. He is a great man who deserves more than anyone to be a father. I love him and all that he does for me. I love that he is willing to put up with me and all my rapid mood changes. I hope you have a great day.

Love you,

Courtney