A Letter from Latvia!

Well, we are still waiting, no news yet. However, today we received a letter from Gertrude, actually signed "Gertrude and Agnese," which is Gertrude's sister. The letter was addressed to all three of us and reads:
Hi Mom and Pop! How are you? You have lots of fun in Latvia? Agnese and I miss you! Do you like Lido? I miss all this family. (then something I can't read..looks like "I have on lots time!" By By love you! Agnese and Gertrude. there were 5 little hearts drawn on the paper. It was on this really cute stationary with puppies on it, some that even looked like they were part beagle! (like our little pooch, Allie) It was so wonderful to get this letter. We have been sending Gertrude's sister some things too for Christmas, her name day, we sent some things for both of them with our friends who went to Latvia last month. We wanted Agnese to feel part of our family too and for Gertrude to understand that we are not trying to take her from her sister, but we want to be in contact with her sister. I think maybe we have succeeded in that. Hopefully she doesn't expect to be coming home with us though! We plan only to adopt ONE and supposedly Agnese is not available to be adopted anyway.

So, just biding our time, praying this goes quickly. Gertrude now has a new birth certificate with her new last name, and they will soon apply for a new passport for her. Hoping it doesn't take long so it won't end up interfering with us bringing her home in the early stages of the adoption, or hosting her if the adoption moves slower than we think. Things sure are uncertain in this arena. We just have to close our eyes and let go of the control (not that we have any control anyway!) Hope to have some real news on the adoption front soon.