Although it is only Christmas Eve at home, it is now Christmas day in the Marshall Islands. We enjoyed a quiet time of family togetherness and opening a few, simple presents. We spent Christmas eve enjoying pizza with Nathan's birthmom and brother & gave them a few gifts to open this morning. We've been invited to Christmas dinner with the local Yachters Club here -- they are nice to invite us misplaced Americans for some traditional Western cuisine. We are looking forward to familiar food.
We miss everyone at home terribly & wish this process of waiting on Nathan's visa wasn't such a long, drawn-out process. I really hope that someday, someone will remedy this needless wait for families. Nathan was legally our child on December 14th, but our own government makes us wait for our adoption packet (including his Visa)to be shipped to several different US offices and signed before he can enter the US. Very frustrating, that our own government creates such a hardship for us. In this day of internet & faxes, this is such a needless wait.
Merry Christmas & we hope to see you soon, although it will likely be several weeks from now.
Love you,
Kathy
