Turn in the road

Well, no one said that anything worth fighting for would be easy.  Adoption is no exception.  Our quest for an international adoption took an unexpected turn in the last few weeks, thus the sparceness of posting to the blog.

First came the news that the Ukraine had passed the first vote to envoke a moretoreum on international adoptions.  This is the first of several votes required, but definately put us on edge.  We have quite a bit of money due in Jan and its tough to make the call to pay it if the country might close as that would mean we would loose the money and with that much paid we'd have to call abd end to our quest for the child we know is out there some where waiting for us.

Next, we lost the support for the up-front money we thought we were going to have for the adoption due to a turn of events.  With that loss we were faced with taking out a loan, which we do not believe for us is appropriate as it migh comprimise the long-term care the new adopted family member will probably need.

So, after a very enlightening discussion with my family, and an offer by them to give us a third of the money we need, we decided perhaps we were being shown in a not-so-subtle way that we were looking in the wrong direction.  Perhaps its not an international adoption that we are being called to do.  Perhaps, we need to adopt closer to home.

After some deliberation and discussions with our social worker, we've chosen to adopt through an agency here in Texas a waiting child from CPS.  We have our first informational meeting on Thursday to meet with the new agency. 

So, as one chapter ends in our story, a new and hopeful chapter begins.  I, too, was adopted from CPS in another state, so in a way, this turn in the road is quite poetic for me on a personal level.  We'll keep you posted.