December 25th, 2010

Christmas time! I don't remember exactly when it arrived, but our adoption agency has sent us a 4 page document all about special needs. We filled out a similar form with our dossier about what special needs we would accept. You have to be brutally honest with yourselves when you fill these out, and some of the special needs are horrible diseases and problems. When we filled out the original one, it was just like a one page deal. This new and updated document was very detailed. I would say that over 75% of the items on the list we had to use Google to figure out what they were. Spinal Bifida, Down's Syndrome, the list went on and on. We sat down one night and just went through the list and decided what type of special needs we could handle. Missing Fingers? No problem, I can handle that. Deaf? Yup, I would take that. Blind? We decided against it. This went on for hours. Finally we were done and we sent it back to the adoption agency who then forwarded it to Bulgaria. We didn't think much about it...but it would be important later...