No more China program for us. After lots of tears and anguish over the weekend, I'm done. I figured there's only a 50% chance that we can get our dossier done in time and that's depending on way too many other people to do things for us. One, being the slowest immigration office in TX. I can't risk another heartbreak nor can we risk losing financially in this.
Instead, we're opting to research other avenues. Vietnam is looking very promising but more expensive and shorter times. Shorter time sounds great but that means coming up with money (even more money than we planned) in a shorter amount of time. 401k is not an option and neither is home equity as we are in TX and must own 20% first - which we don't. Sooo it's saving and ebaying time for me.
I'm a little scared and overwhelmed with Vietnam. There is much less community support so it's taking some additional time to research. Reading blogs, I've also seen some horror stories as well. The travel time is much longer too. I read one lady whose baby's birth mom came back and they had to give her another baby and she ended up being stuck in Vietnam for over a month. WOW. You just dont' hear about that kind of stuff in China.
Anyway, along with the 1 bad story comes many many wonderful stories of beautiful children united with their mommies and daddies and it makes me excited to learn and progress through this different path. It may not be as easy in my eyes but as Susan said, anything this good is worth fighting for.
Thank you so so so much for your prayers and support throughout my drama.
You are a very kind group of men & women and so deserving of the children and future children you have.
Hugs,
Erin