Up, Down or Sideways????

Our adoption journey reads like a bad Lifetime movie. I have seen after-school-specials with fewer mess ups. If I wasn't living it I would never believe it. It couldn't possibly be true. It is just too unbelievable. And yet the saga continues....

The governing body in Guat for adoptions, PGN, has decided that they will interview the birth moms for all the approved cases that they re-tracted last week and if they feel the birth mom willingly relinquished the child they will approve and release the file. That means US! Yah baby! This might actually work! I e-mailed the attorney and he is working on getting an appointment for this. Luckily our son's birth mother is still living nearby and cooperating even after all this time. I absolutely REFUSE to get my hopes up but maybe, just maybe we will finally get a break. 

On the other side, PBJ's case has hit a major snag. The investigation in Juvenile Court is done, and the file was submitted to PGN and they kicked it out and sent it back to the court. The court sent it back to PGN. PGN sent it back to the court. Etc etc etc. Stalemate. They are arguing over one document. PGN says the atty did something wrong but the investigation cleared up all the birth mother questions. So it comes down to if PGN will approve the case with the info from the investigation and then deal with the atty separately or if they will literally throw the baby out with the bath water. 

Anyone want to guess what might happen next? Rabid wolves eat our file? Bats take over the PGN building? The government decide that they will all take a 6 month vacation? Nothing would surprise me at this point. 

But, we have a back-up plan. We have worked on it for quite a while. I think it is a good one.

Our back-up plan is to pay for Ahren to go to law school in Guat and then have him finish both of their adoptions. ;-)