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Originally Posted by ocracoke

My daughter was 21 months when we arrived home. And I would do it again in a heart beat. Actually next time I hope to go older. My daughter was a caged animal on day 1 and we spent abotu 1 hour together. On day 2 she ran away from me at first sight of me -- no joke -- but I forced her to spend the day with me anyway. On day 3 she went with me, unhappy at first, and spent the day. On day 4 she let me know that I was mom and I best start acting like it -- including not returning her to the orphanage at night. Each child and each family are different but personally I would take a toddler over an infant any day.

Samantha

Quit it...you know I want to go to ETH!

The emotion connecting me all the sudden to that country is just BIZARRE. I'm trying to use it to motivate me to get the bills paid off. If in a year from now, we have the adoption loans paid off...I would consider doing foster care while we wait for a referral in ETH. Did you pay as you went for the process? If we did it that way we could afford it. International, I wouldn't mind paying as we went, cause there is no real networking or speeding up the process...Course a good friend waiting for a Columbia referral just found out her agency went under. They had over 10K invested into the process with that agency... Now they are on hold waiting to see what happens with that agency and if they can get their $ back...

UGG...I was against international adoption (for us)..I might allow myself to look into it. I hate that I can't see any of the waiting children on line like you can with other countries...I e-mailed for a password to one agency, but they never responded...