Yes, we have officially been home for six weeks as of 30 or so minutes ago. Wow - I can hardly believe it has already been six weeks, or that it has only been six weeks.
Today is a bittersweet day as there is all kinds of ruckus going on in the media because a woman who adopted a seven-year old child from Russia last September had her mother escort him on a flight to Washington, where she then put the child on a plane to Moscow alone. She paid a Russian man $200 to pick this child up from the airport and deliver him to the Ministry of Science and Education, and enclosed a note with the child saying that he had "severe psychological problems" and that she could no longer parent him. As horrifying as that is, there is a real concern that Russia is going to freeze all adoptions to US citizens until the investigation is over and changes to the process are made.
This whole situation makes me sad - sad for the child who has been abandoned all over again, sad for the families who are in the process of completing their adoptions who likely will have to wait even LONGER to bring their children home (if ever - who knows how long this could take), and sad for the orphans who wait for their forever families in the orphanages. It is also terrifying to think that if the timing had not been what it was I could have been caught up in this whole mess and waited even longer for my little RP.
What a difference six weeks makes...
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