Meeting with the Agency

Lara and I met with the adoption agency on Friday. More changes in the Ukraine apparently! It turns out that the new administration of the Ukrainian Central Adoption Authority (CAA) is on the way out and a newer administration is taking over. Actually the "newer" administration is actually the "older" administration personnel that were in place prior to the current administration. The current administration is less than two years old. If this is all confusing to you, that's OK because it is to us as well. "Everything old is new again" as the saying goes. Not much rhyme or reason to it communicated. The timing of the change could not be better or worse depending on which side of that coin we land. The current administration is done the day we board the airplane on Friday, February 29th and the "new" administration starts the day of our first appointment on Monday, March 3rd.

We are counting on the "worker bees" at the CAA, to still be working on March 3rd and hoping they have done their homework and are as prepared as we are. Other options exist for us, but with this new turn in the road, we are going to keep plowing ahead vs. postponing. Too many wheels are in motion at this point and too much disappointment if we don’t go. I think this is where many people fall back on faith, so I'll do the same. Something has to go right at some point. Sort of the “double down” strategy of adoption. Keep going until you have no more go. Never quit. Eventually either the odds or a higher spirit will intervene and make things right. Faith.

On a less stressful note, I am happy to report that the child-to-be's room now has furniture and is looking less sparse. There is a dresser, mirror and night stand. It is looking more like an inhabited space every day. Now we just need the inhabitant!