Интернейшнл Чилдренс Аллайнс, Инк.

Wanna take a guess at what the title of this entry means?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Yeah - didn't think so.

Apparently this is the name of our homestudy agency in Russian. If you recall I wrote a quick update about a list that was put out by the Russian Ministry of Education that named Home Study Providers who have not followed through with their post placement reports. We thought we had dodged a bullet by not having our agency on the list. Well, I got a call today from our awesome social worker who decided to review the list again. And as you can guess since I am writing about it - Lifelink IS on the list. They were one of the agencies that were left at the bottom and not translated from Russia to English. We are trying to get our bearings as is everyone else affected. Lifelink is as surprised as I am to be on the list as they have not sent any post placement reports in late nor have been notified of any issues. Of course there are a number of areas where this process can fall apart so it is hard to tell.

I feel bad because initially I just broke down in tears on the phone. How could we have missed this last week? What does all of this mean? I have since got my wits about me a bit and know that I need to take my own advice and go back to 1 Thessalonians 16 that I wrote about on Saturday. Maybe this situation will help us get our papers in front of a judge quicker. I am grasping at straws right now, but I don't want to think of the worst case scenario. To be honest I don't even want to prepare myself for the worst case scenario. I just don't have it in me right now.

I am waiting with what little patience I can muster to hear back from our agency on what is next. From what I gather no one really knows. There is very little information coming from Russia right now on how each region is handling this situation. Plus I found out that today is a holiday in Russia so everyone has the day off. Here is a little info about the said holiday...

The Army Day - Men's Day - February 23: This holiday is celebrated on the 23rd of February. It is the tribute of respect to all the generations of Russian soldiers from the ancient times till nowadays to those who defeated courageously the motherland from invaders. On this day all the masculine representatives from boys to old men receive congratulations and presents and the military men greet each other. Women have a happy opportunity to say the warmest and the sweetest words to their lovers and to please them with signs of attention. (copied from the internet)

I think I need to reread Brady's entry so I can smile again. Isn't he sweet?!?! I can't wait for Blake to meet him and Madison!