For those of you just joining us on our Journey to our son, I figured I would fill you in. It has been a whirlwind for us, so it must be a bit confusing to others. Many of you know that we originally thought our son was in Mongolia!
Kevin (Dad) works for BD's Mongolian Grill, and has worked for them for almost 2 years. When Kevins restuarnt opened in September of 2006 and at the opening events, our family met Uusaan, the owner of the Bd's in Mongolia! He took to Abby fast and sat and had lunch with us. He was a very nice man and was very curious about Kevin and I adopting Abby from China. He then asked "why not Mongolia?" I told him that I had no idea they has an international adoption program, but will check it out!
Well, we checked into it and just thought it was meant to be for us. We started gathering paperwork and completed our dossier in July 2007, our dossier was finally submitted to Mongolia in August of 2007.
We knew right away that the Mongolian program was not stable. It was on hold all of 2007 due to staff changes in Mongolia, we knew our wait would be a long one!
In January of 2008, we got a call from our agency saying that Mongolia's board had started meeting, but news was not good. Mongolia changed the rules. Dosssiers of Families with children from other countries were no longer being accepted for placement. This means, because we have a daughter adopted from China, we do not qualify for these new standards. I cannot even tell you how much this pains us, as our daughter has been learning about Mongolia and about her soon to be brother. We feel Mongolia is unjust in their new policies and have worked with our agency and the US embassy in Mongolia for them to sway their decisions. As our dossier sits, waiting to be denied, we have been advised to go to Plan B. So here we are! Thailand, plan B.
Because we have Thailand, we have faith. It really doesn't matter where our son is, just that we find him. These are the unknowns about adoption, things happen. We are strong! We feel in our hearts that our son is.........somewhere, it is just a matter of finding him.
So,..................now your caught up!
K
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