As Expected

It was a false alarm. There was no court date on Thursday. Dustin went to visit the lawyer on Tuesday and learned that Thursday was only the day that the lawyer was going to the court to GET the court date. (We thought he had done this a looooong time ago...) Our court date may be four weeks away still. Or it may be two. Or one. Or ten! Who knows?

The lawyer was pretty annoyed that Dustin had come to visit him. He and his secretary were very clear that THEY would call US when they had news. They were SUPPOSED to call on Thursday (it's now Friday morning there) with the date, but they didn't. Does this surprise anyone?

There are so many reasons why we would really like this adoption to go through a bit quicker. Most are obvious so I have no need to state them. One lesser known reason is that the longer this adoption takes, the more it costs. We will have a nearly (if not over) $2000 rental car bill. It would have been about $700 if we had all been able to come home together in July. This is frustrating on many levels. We don't even have a working car in Portland. It's broken and isn't worth fixing. We get around town via the bus. It takes me an hour to get to work and an hour to get home. That $2000+ could buy us a pretty decent car here. It wouldn't go quite as far to buy one in Malawi - it's still cheaper to rent - but that's becoming less and less true each and every day. And no one there understands that this is a concern. We're white. We have tons of money, right? It's crazy, but this adoption is going to cost about the same amount of money as we made last year. That says more about our income and less about the high cost of adoption. Still, it's mind-numbing. Is it shameless to mention that there's a Baby Moses fund?

Hopefully I'll be able to tell you a very certain date very soon. I'm expecting (and simultaneously not expecting) to have one by tomorrow. We have to alter Dustin's return date again... and we're hoping to be able to make a more educated guess this time. Again, thanks for your concern and your phone calls to ask about Moses and how the court date went today. I'm sorry I missed a call or two. And I'm sorry I didn't update you until now. Keep hoping.