A few days ago, we mailed a letter to Chinese Children Adoption International, requesting that they and the central adoption authority in China close our file.  We sent our initial application in February of 2006, and finished our dossier 9 months later.  We got got an official log-in-date (LID) in China of 12-11-2006, which was our 7-year wedding ( Read more... )

So, there's this thing called the Hague Convention: http://adoption.state.gov/hague/overview.html

And these are the countries that are part of it: http://adoption.state.gov/hague/overview/countries.htmlIf you adopt a child from a Hague country, the adoption must follow the rules of the Hague convention.  The convention establishes things like... ( Read more... )

I am discovering that people who take non-standard routes to become parents fall into two groups, when it comes to solidarity ( Read more... )