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.