Russian Program Update

Over the past couple of days I have received a number of emails from my agency. In my opinion 2 of these emails are what I would consider good news. I think that whom ever wrote the initial letter that has upset so many of us honestly did not read the letter from the waiting adoptive parents point of view. I have been assured that the agency is not closing! I am still a bit cautious so I will institute a wait and see attitude.

The first email I have have received was the statistics of how many children have been placed by my agency. You all know how much I love the facts and numbers. So here they are:

Girls under 2 - 9
Boys under 2 - 13

Girls over 2 - 11
Boys over 2 - 12

Boy+boy, girl+girl - 2
Boy+girl - 6

Cases completed - 53
Children adopted - 63

This is good news to me. I think one of the hardest things for me has been I have only connected with a small number of adoptive parents who are using or have used my agency.

The second email was a request to be a part of a Referral Conference Call meeting for the 13th. So instantly I started to think could this mean that I am close to a referral?? Well to my understanding many of the waiting families have also gotten this email who have not waited quite as long as I have waited.

I emailed my coordinator and I have downloaded the packet for the Referral Conference Call but I am not quite sure that I will be able to make this conference call because I will be traveling home that day. One good thing that I can say about the packet of information is that I feel it is very informative and easy to read. The agency included a large glossary of Russian medical terms and how these terms translate to the American medical system.

So I am still in a bit of a holding pattern until next week.