Falling. Crashing. Moving forward...

No, I have not deserted this blog; nor have I moved to a mountain top where there is no internet service.  What has happened to keep me away so long after leaving you with the nothing that I left you with in September?  Well, it appears that yet another country is contemplating their agreement with the US to continue adoptions.  Yes, the country of Ukraine is considering closing it's doors until a time that the United States has signed a bilateral agreement with them.  Quite possibly they may consider joining the Hague Convention.  These agreements could be written quickly and without much effort if the countries in question were considering the children who are waiting for a family to love them and take them home.  Unfortunately for those children it is not to be.  At least not quickly.  I do not even think that those with political power ever stop to think of those ones they say that they are trying to help.  No, I don't think that there is even the slightest mention of them as the talk of "adoption suspension" echos in the air. My prayer is that the people with the power would have their hearts softened and that they would do what is best for all of the children. Find them homes...
Where does that leave us you ask?  Looking to Russia. Again we refiled our paperwork, this time Russia is our desired country.  This time there is also a picture in our hearts.  She is a lovely 2 1/2-year-old blue-eyed blonde haired beautiful little girl.   She lives in a baby house in Vladivostok.  Our paperwork has been flying together for trip 1 and coming along fine until we made contact with another brick wall.  Due to an adoption agency, who is no longer in business, not filing their post placement papers timely our social workers agency was put on the Russian blacklist.  What this means for us is that either we use a different home study agency who is not on said blacklist or we wait 3-4 months to see if our social workers agency is taken off of the blacklist after she refiles the "missing" paperwork.
We decided to use a different agency for out home study.  Our social worker is in the process of trying to contact another for us to use.
And we wait...