The plot thickens...but not too much

We have learned that the packet with our dossier was in fact sent on Monday to Russia. The person who told me it hadn't been sent yet had thought the director was still waiting on something, but when I talked to the director today he gave me the tracking number of the package he sent out on Monday to Russia. It should arrive tomorrow or Monday.

I had a talk with him about this situation and he understands where we are at. He has asked if he can just TRY to get it submitted and see what feedback they get before we move ahead and sign up with another agency. He made clear that he was not asking us to pay anything, basically he just wants a week to see if the submission goes through. I told him we were absolutely, for sure switching home study agencies, even if we didn't switch adoption agencies, and I said that we expect it would be messy to potentially have two different homestudies floating around. He assured me that this will not create a problem. He also clarified that the new bureaucrat in our region is not at all involved with the court system, which is the dicey part of the process.

Nothing has changed from the plan I laid out here earlier today - we are starting the new homestudy on Tuesday (already made our appointment), and we are looking into whether to pursue Russia with a new agency or pursue domestic adoption. The one change is that during the next week, while we are investigating these options, our current agency (with no additional payment or commitment from us) is going to try to submit our paperwork. If by some miracle it is accepted, despite the expiration dates, then we would be traveling quickly. More likely, there will be problems and it will not make it, in which case we will pick up with another agency as planned. So it doesn't cost us anything to let them try.

Not sure what you should pray for, but please pray for God's will to be done.