Third time’s a charm?

I started my dossier yesterday!  Given that it’s the fourth dossier I’ve put together, and the third in the past five months in search of baby #2, I’m hoping it isn’t going to take too long. I’ve been waiting for my agency to pull together the last new forms that are required, since I would prefer to get everything signed and notarized on the same day – maybe they’ll get them to me next week?  I’m going to be dragging one of the notaries from my office all over Silicon Valley in the next week or two so I can get all of my letters (including from two different doctors and five different friends, a bank and the police) taken care of.  Poor woman.  I don’t think she knows what she’s in for.  Well, maybe she does.  She’s the one who notarized both my Thai and Ethiopian dossiers, after which she declared, “you know, it really would be easier for you to do this the old-fashioned way.”  Yikes.  Glad I’m not adopting because of fertility issues.

I do think this will be my final dossier, though.  This was a lot easier when I was blindly pulling together docs for Oscar’s dossier, clueless about the fact that programs could close, agencies could lie to you about the child you were agreeing to adopt and/or countries could decide you were no longer an attractive candidate to parent their children because of your lack of a spouse (let alone all the other things I know about international adoption now). Takes a lot of emotional energy to get your hopes up again.

January 17, 2009 Posted by Oscar and Etta's mom | Adoption, Nepal | 1 Comment