Recently, part of me started thinking that the girls' legal situation is an uphill battle and reality was starting to set in that perhaps we would have to pick other girls. Although we've never touched them or talked to them, it's an odd feeling and remarkable just how quickly feelings can grow. I guess it would be kind of like seeing a video of your unborn baby and then finding out that oops they are not actually yours, start over. This morning however after peeling off from a bike ride with a friend either out of sheer exhaustion combined with zero carbs or through the promptings of God I found myself ditching that reality and pleading to God to bring these girls to us!
Interesting development via Russia today. The word is that our adoption agency thinks they might be successful in moving Taisia from her orphanage to the older sister's orphanage. Previously, when we asked if this was an option the answer was absolutely not, they won't do that. I asked them to clarify that response given this new strategy and they replied that in previous cases they were told "no way" but that their representative in St. Petersburg is more hopeful this time.
This would do some amazing things for the girls. First and foremost, the Baby Home Taisia would be moved to is excellent and probably the best baby home in Russia according to our agency. So even if the legal situation doesn't resolve itself to free up Taisia to adoption at least she is getting an "upgrade" and she'll get to be with her sister who she has never met! However, this move would remove Taisia from the district and the prosecutor's tentacles that filed this motion and put her in a very friendly district to our agency.
As to why the prosecutor filed this motion…we don't know but most likely it was based on a very common current trend in Russia not to terminate parental rights, but only limit them. Sound familiar? I just read yesterday that the US has 425,000 kids in foster care.
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