German Agency

I finally got a response from the German agency I had contacted to see what my options were. I got exactly the response I expected. (That's a first!)

1) We need to improve our German so that we may go through the process in German. (Ha! It would take 10-12 years for my German to get that good!)

2) We can only adopt from a country if we have a relative or plan on spending a lot of time there. There is 1 country that is an exception and they have older, special needs kids. Not an issue, except that country is not even on our long list.

So, we're essentially stuck. American agencies can't help because the German government won't let them. German agencies won't help because we don't speak enough German and don't have relatives in any of our "preferred" countries. (That's not even to mention the fact that Germany doesn't work with our country of choice) When I muster up the motivation (currently trying to straighten out an issue that was supposed to be resolved months ago with our Kabel company), I'm going to call the Central Authority back and explain my predicament to see if maybe she'll grant us the exception to use a US agency since the German agency isn't really an option. It's worth a shot anyways.....

-V