My mind has been spinning all week, so please forgive me for not posting more information! When something big happens, believe me, I’ll post.
Yesterday we had a nice late morning/early afternoon play time with Heather and her kids - first playing at a park, then lunch out, then a quick shopping trip. It’s always nice to see them.
When JediBoy and I made our way home from that, my mind slipped back into all the details that go into preparing for the Guatemala trip. My current pick-it-apart problem is choosing exactly how to make the airline reservations - online myself or using the travel agency recommended by our adoption agency. I may be able to find cheaper tickets using the computer myself, but the reservations have to be made within an hour or so of when we get The Call. So I’m trying out different sites, comparing discounts, looking at flight options. There’s one set of flights that looks appealing - less than 8 hours from airport to airport, leaving here at 2-something in the afternoon, arriving there late evening. But we only have a 55 minute connection in DFW - is that enough time? Hm.
That’s what’s spinning round my head. It didn’t help that PisecoDad was out of town for a meeting on the other side of the state and didn’t come home until about 8:30, just as a big wave of thunderstorms started washing through.
There’s also a lot going on in the Guatemala adoption communities. The Dept. of State issued a statement this week - basically a warning saying that Guatemala will stop all new and in process adoptions as of Dec. 31. Fortunately, this does not affect our current adoption, since we’ll be complete within two weeks or so. But I can clearly imagine the agony for families who have a referral and have just entered PGN and now don’t know if they’ll be able to bring home this baby they’ve fallen in love with. All my Guat groups and sites (the major one is GuatAdopt) have been talking and tearing apart this DOS statement, and there are several petitions and letter-writing and phone-call campaigns starting up to plead with the US government not to give up on the in-process adoptions. I even got an email about it from my agency - and generally they stay very quiet on policy/political matters. They have revamped their site and are no longer taking Guat paperwork (for beginning adoptions) as of Monday.
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