Our adoption journey...

When I wrote my last post I said hopefully the postal services wont let us down... well they have... One parcel went astray... of course a new one is already on its way but yet again a week lost. In future I will not think about what could possibly go wrong :( but I shall remain positive and every day past is a day less to wait regardless of how long the wait is. In the mean time I am thoroughly enjoying the US and making a mental note of the things that I think Raju will like so we can do them again in the future :) Well fingers crossed our last document reaches India in the next few days :) I will tune in again when I have more news...

5 days since my last post... by now 3 envelopes are on their way to India... 3 envelopes from 3 different countries... but yes I managed to get all the paperwork together. Hopefully the postal services will not let us down and they should be able to file in the next two weeks. We then need to wait to hear when will be the court dates, there will be several court dates but we do not have to be present. Luckily a representative from the orphanage will take care of this. I am all packed for our next travel with the usual packing dilemma of what to take, what not to take... I was wondering what my suitcase to India would look like...   I already have a ton of advice from fellow adoptive parents, travel websites etc... but I definitely will be travelling light although hubby says he wants to take food with him. This is quite interesting considering our favourite cuisine is Indian but he is very worried about getting sick over there. We normally are very adventurous when travelling and

We had some bad news yesterday, where I thought our file had already long been filed in the court it appears now this is not the case. There seem to be more documents missing, I was so disappointed that another month has passed without anything happening and as per usual some of the documents are already in our file. I am waiting for clarification on what exactly is needed. At the same time the warden of the orphanage has passed away. We did not get a chance to meet this woman but judging from the reactions on facebook etc.. this was a wonderful person and I am sure the children and staff are going through a difficult time. I can't help but wonder what effect this lady had on Raju's life and if he is in any way going through a hard time. I feel so helpless not to be able to do anything. I hope we can clarify the missing documents before our trip to the US, I hate to think we would loose another month on administrative nonsense. I know it is not nonsense and it is important but