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I have been getting lots of congratulations, but it seems premature as I feel as if I am only moving one step along in what often seems like an insurmountable process of obstacles and hindrances to becoming a mother. It's just alot easier to visualize with Sofi's sweet face to look at. Biological parents do not need anyone's permission or a license to parent. For those of us choosing to be parents by adoption, it is not an accident or an unconscious event. It takes years to come to the realization that your wish to adopt has culminated in you finally being ready to take the first formal step. For me, this was about 20 years in the making as I knew I wanted to adopt a child from India even as a teenager and it has always been something in the back of my mind, I suppose I was waiting until I thought I was ready. I got ready. Then... you find out all the local authorities in the UK are "not recruiting" for parents! Like this was a sales call?! Apparently there are ha...

I can't account for the past 4 months except to say they have been a blur. Sofi is growing healthy and strong and is walking now. She wanders off confidently all over the ashram as far as she can, investigating everything. Paperwork drags on without much progress it seems. Sofi is now like a mascot passed from kid to kid around the ashram as she becomes capable of more and more sounds and entertainment for the others. Sunrises, sunsets, sunrises and I can't keep track of where all the time goes every day.