Thursday, October 23, 2008

Ember's Name

On Friday we have our court appointment to finalize Ember's adoption. And yesterday our attorney's assistant called us to confirm and then spent the rest of the call going over Ember's name. I carefully spelled each one (there are 4, you know!)and the call ended.

It's sort of funny how prepared we were with her name before we went to Ethiopia. We called her Ember, but it wasn't used on any of her official paperwork or traveling visa or passport. They used her given name and then Chris's whole name. That's just how it's done. It was a little disappointing, especially since naming your child is so personal and is exclusively the parents' right.

So now on Friday she becomes legally part of our family and finally, finally she'll have the name we chose for her on her new birth certificate and Decree of Adoption. I'm excited and relieved to be on the final step of our adoption journey. And I can't wait to see her new name, the name we gave her, on all those official papers!

2 comments:

emme said...

i am so happy for you to be coming to the end of this long journey to have your daughter! more than 9 months for sure. but of course you know the journey is just beginning and will truly never end. ahhh, just look at your last blog! but you know, it is all worth it. and as they grow up into young men and woman, you get to look back and see that you did make some right decision and that they turned out great despite the possibly wrong ones. :)

Clive and Dawn said...

Congratulations Susan on the end, or is it the beginning? {smile} part of your journey!!