There is nothing I can do about this, but it has been bothering me for some time. Based on our combined age and number of children already in the home we were “allowed” to only adopt one child from India. There are exceptions to the rules, such as adopting a sibling set. One couple we know is adopting 3 siblings that range in age from 9 down. When adopting multiples the cost differential is not that much in the grand scheme of things. If you are already $35k into it what is another $5 - $7k? Our daughter is now 2 ½ and I am quite sure that she has a special friend at the orphanage. When she come home she is going to be leaving everything she knew: sounds sights, smells, language, family...and she will be leaving her friend. Not much that can be done now, however one wonder what might have been if we had put in our paperwork for 2? What is the worse they could do – say no? At this juncture our best bet is to find out who this mystery child is and if possible find out if another family is in the process of adopting her/him. If it is in the us then there may be a way to keep some sort of contact.
I have been testing Skype for the past few weeks. Cool – the video link seems to work ok. A sister lives in snow country and she took her laptop outside to show us the backyard covered in snow – brrrr.
Still waiting for ICPC between Texas & California. Once this gets done we are cleared to go, probably about 35 days post notification. Time to re-look at the hotel choices, get some more paperwork updated. The end is nigh.
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