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This week, I am shocked to see a hot international adoption topic is that Russia is almost officially shutting down adoption to US families. The obvious victims are the hundreds and thousands of orphans in Russia - their chances of being adopted into a decent family is slim. Many Eastern European children who are given up suffer from a mild or debilitating form of fetal alcohol syndrome. Many adoptive parents struggle through it, but it's hard. Some fail. Russian adoptive parents also fail. But Russia still recalls the horrible American mother who returned her adopted child on a plane, unaccompanied. Rightly so, that has outraged Russians. It is sickening that any mother would do that. The latest article http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/world/europe/russian-parliament-gives-final-approval-to-us-adoption-ban.html?ref=europe Increasingly, international adoption is becoming harder and harder. The Hague Convention is supposed to improve things. But in reality, it has just provided m...

We are in the midst of buying a house here in Tahoe. So we should be moving this month. Hoping to be all moved in before the month's end so we can start 2013 in our new home. This is the last major hurdle to overcome before progressing on with the adoption process. There have been lots of good and bad reports of how things are moving in India. I browse some other blogs, and people are bringing their kids home. From all over India. So things are still moving. The bad news is that CARA has already announced they are going to shut down taking any new applications in January 2013. If they have been accepting 100 applications a month this year, they should have somewhere in the region of a 1000 applications they need to catch up on. Alot of orpahanages are still apparently saying they have no kids. So it looks like we will be in for a long long wait. That's just the way it is. Sofi is thriving and doing well. Out of the blue she will ask if we can go to India so she can get her si...