Snow is falling, and the kids are home from school 2 hours early today. I will have to make this post very brief so that I can rush to the store and get staples to survive being snowed in for the weekend. Ha ha. Just a bit of humor in a rather humorless day.
Last night we brought dinner to Ed's Mom (Dad was at the casino), and stayed for a visit. She has graciously offered to help make these amazing quilted trivets to bring to China as gifts. This is no small undertaking, I assure you! Anyway, we spent quite some time going through fabric remnants, matching patterns and colors for each little trivet. Apparently, my Mom is going to get in on the act too, as she had dredged up her fabric remnants. I will definitely have to include some pictures of these on this blog when they are done. I think they will be perfect - as Ed's Mom says, "They are a little piece of Americana."
Much to our surprise, we received a response from China yesterday, via the maddening chain of command that apparently all adoptive parents working with China experience. We were not expecting such a quick response. We were also not expecting the response we got! This, in a nutshell is the communication we received:
- "No more questions will be answered for this family. We have answered all of their questions 3 times. Our answers are not contradictory."
Now let me explain that , after we were matched with Lucia, we were allowed to ask a small number (5 to be exact) of specific questions regarding Lucia's condition (mind you, she is a special needs child who has had no less than 3 major surgeries before the age of 8 months). I could have come up with about 70 questions, but we asked those 5 questions, and 3 of them were answered, 2 were completely ignored. So we asked again. Of the 3 questions that were previously answered, we got different responses, the original 2 ignored questions were again ignored. After this, we received the 2 e-mails I spoke about in the 2 posts prior to this one. I then contacted the director of our agency, and she assured me that she would make every effort to get those questions answered. I chose the 3 most important issues, and again requested answers. The response above is what we got.
SO, despite the fact that I feel like we are a bit in the dark, we shall proceed with hopefully one more consultation with a specialist to determine our "worst-case-scenerio" and our "best-case-scenerio" and hope for the best or somewhere in-between.
To make things even more fun, the adoption fees for China are going up in increments. They have had a number of increases since we have started the process, but recently, the increases seem to be larger and more frequent. 2 specifically were mentioned today.
I just know that a year or so down the road, when little Lucia is settled into our home, all of this will seem so silly and inconsequential. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." - Let's hope so, anyway.
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