Our adoption Story - Kyrgyzstan

Of corse nothing has really changed. But our agency is trying to see if there are any corners that we can cut, being that we live in England and there is an open Kyrgyz Embassy nearby. This week, I read about a family that, only days after they finished the dossier,were given a referral! I remember hearing of such wonderous events when we started the process for Vietnam and I was filled with hope and joy. Now I feel a bit worried. Seems to me that luck in adoption is not my fate.
The landlord will sign and notarize his letter, our social worker will approve our homestudy for the USCIS, and we have an appointment with Scotland Yard for the FBI fingerprints.

Soon all of this will be over and we can safely be on the waiting list for our little Xavier. I was speaking to Chris the other day and we both agree that this has gone on far too long. We really want to move from our current house to one cheaper & closer to town but until the adoption is over we can't move. We can't count on future expenses, can't budget the rest of the year, can't take a good vacation... can't do much really, besides wait.

Oh gosh! if any one has God's ear... mind tugging on it for us?

Today is an odd day. I just got our old dossier back from Vietnam. It brings an uncomfortable feeling of failure...there in black and white. But who's failure? Not ours, not our agency but that of two friendly governments picking at each other like school girls.

I am really sad that our adoption in Vietnam didn't go through. Yet, I hold on to faith that Kyrgyzstan will work out. Honestly, we could not possible continue on towards a 3rd country financially. Even with the tiny refund we received from LNI. I can hardly make myself believe that our adoption will have gone over the 40k usd mark once finished. Sometimes, as much as I hate to think about it, I wish we were celebrities and problems such as these didn't exist. I used to defend the Jolie-Pitt family when others said they fast tracked their adoption... now I am not so sure. I just don't see how their adoption went through so fast and a year later we are accepting the failure of our own.

We are only two papers away from completing our dossier for Kyrgyzstan and yet the embassy in the US remains closed. I hope, once the papers have arrived, that I can use the Embassy here in London to speed things along.