The way life goes

The past few months have been filled with many ups and downs. We found out at the end of February that the new region in Russia, Omsk, but a hold on all international adoptions. Then in April was the incident that made national news about the mom in Tennessee. Adoption is a situation that is almost impossible to understand unless you go through it. We do not even have any idea what we are in for until we actually adopt. I make no judgments on that mother's choice. Selfishly, I worried about how it would change or derail the process for us. So onto the news that we have.

As for of right now, adoptions are still moving between Russia and the US. Our agency actually had a couple over there right as it all happened. Their adoption went through with no major issues. They have another couple ready to go at the end of the month. We are keeping fingers crossed and hoping everything continues as they have been.

Rich and I over all are doing okay. There are lots of ups and downs in this entire process. We are doing okay, just ready for more ups than downs. We had a rough weekend with it being Harry's birthday. They say the firsts are always the hardest and there is one more that is done. We are looking forward to a summer of travel with family. We are heading to see Rich's parents and my entire family is coming to us at some point over the summer. We keep our eyes on the good things and keep going and surviving the tough things.