...and we WAIT!

Just when we thought we were on the brink of Kaz making the official announcement, another scandal surfaces! A husband and wife are on trial this week for raping their 2 adopted children from Kazakhstan. Besides the fact that it so closely affects our adoption it really is a gut wrenching story. The adopted girl who had dreamed all her life of being adopted and having a family had to end up in such a horrific situation! She finally told her neighborhood friends what was going on who in turn told their parents and then the police. When investigated the girl denied it all, and when asked about it now said she couldn't bare the thought of possibly being taken away from the very thing that she had dreamed all her life of having, not knowing if she would go back to an orphanage or what, so out of fear of the unknown had denied all charges and chose to endure what no child should ever have to go through! Now if that doesn't make your mama bear hair stand on end I don't know what will!! The case was turned over to the jurors last night, so we wait to see what they decide. Needless to say Kaz is NOT impressed, and very rightfully so! I'm hoping that if they are both charged guilty and sentenced adequately (according to Kaz) that it will  help, and Kaz will not judge the U.S. based on this case and still re-open shortly for the rest of the harmless, loving parents that are waiting to adopt!!! It is also in our favor that these children were adopted years ago before the Hague was implemented and it was through an un-reputable agency that is no longer in business.
Despite the fact that some people feel this is the tip of the iceberg for Kaz and they will permanently close adoptions to U.S. our agency feels like considering the circumstances and the outcome of the trial it is still highly possible for them to still re-open.  So... we still have hope. It's not over till it's over.  In fact we still have enough hope that we went to Birmingham yesterday for our bio-metric fingerprints :) Interestingly the man at the front desk was the same as 3 years ago... in more ways than one HA He tried acting all rough and tough and like he wasn't going to be able to take us today because we came two weeks before our scheduled appointment yadayada.. after some sweet talking and pleading he said he would check with the technician to see if there would be anyway he could squeeze us in today if we would be willing to wait. Not sure what happens in the back, but same as last time he came back whistling and gave us our forms to fill out and pretended there had never been a problem! Maybe his mama was back there and gave him a good stern look and told him he better choose to be friendly and helpful OR ELSE! LOL  So we sat down to begin our 'implied' lengthy wait to get worked in and a mere 10 minutes later the technician said he was ready for the walk-ins :-) It seems like people would get a bigger satisfaction of just being sweet from the get go instead of having to show there stuff and throw there weight around, but guess I don't know much about it!
That is the last piece of evidence USCIS needs and should approve our case to bring our little Kaz sweetie to the U.S.
It's amazing how you can get attached to a child thousands of miles away that you have never even seen and in fact know NOTHING about, but it's true! Have been getting so anxious lately to go get that little punkins, and it is proving to be entirely too many delays and obstacles in the way! That's one of the few things Wal-mart doesn't sell...PATIENCE!