I went to the Chosen Families Adoption Group meeting last night. Troy was playing basketball. What a wonderful group of people! All have adopted or are in the process of adopting internationally. We had children from Korean, Russian and domestic adoptions. We heard stories from 2 families who had recently adopted.
In a roundtable discussion of everyone's situation, it was clear that Taiwan is the place to be right now. China has slowed down considerably and many of the families in the process of adopting from Russia have had setbacks as the Russian government has changed the rules on agency reaccreditation and many of their agencies are currently at a complete standstill.
The discussion also reminded me how special adoptive parents are. They must be willing to bare every intimate detail of their lives, complete education, jump through many hoops for various American and international agencies, have faith and extreme patience, hurdle many obstacles - all for the privilege of becoming parents. And they all realize it is very much worth it in the end. No one has a boring story to share.
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The having faith thing is what we have had to grasp onto. So to you I say"keep the faith", you are moving along
You adoption group sounds a lot like our Girl Scout troup were setting up. We have girls from Caucasion, Chinese, Russian, Hispanic, Korean, and African American families joining our troop.
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