...and I have some good news & bad news.

Good news first: (Remember, I sent a copy of our dossier to Natalia - our Russia contact person at CHI- so she could go over it before we take it to be apostilled.) This afternoon, I got a call from her saying that we had done a superb job on our dossier! The Good News!!

And then she said she noticed on one of our forms that we'd be open to twins and asked me if we had applied to adopt 2 kids w/ the CIS. To this question, my answer was "yes." Well, she noticed on our homestudy recommendation letter that Amy (our 'local' social worker) recommended us to adopt one child. In our interviews w/ Amy, I'm pretty sure that we had discussed being approved for up to two children (with our first preference for adopting one)...and I'm not sure exactly where the communication error occured, but we thought we were going to be approved for two..but the homestudy says one.

Nathan & I know that we are pretty much only wanting to adopt one...but would be open to twins, if there are any available. So now we sort of feel like a "possibility" has ended, if that makes any sense. AND, our homestudy is already at CIS right now, which makes me afraid to try to change anything (don't want to hold the process up any longer!). I talked to Amy, and she said that she could amend our homestudy, send it back through DHR and it shouldn't hold us up much... but she's afraid that CIS would not approve us for two, and might kick us out of the "system." Oh well... I am going to let Amy check into it and see what she finds out, but we're about to the point that we'll just leave it all as it is right now.

So to your family members who have said that you're hoping for twins...I'm sorry for the disappointment, but it looks like that's not a possibility now.

But you know, maybe this is God's way of saying that we'd really do better "one at a time." There's the positive spin!! :)