Rylan's Journey Home

I don't even know quite where to begin with this post.  A lot has happened since my post on Monday.  Adoption Supervisors (a special attorney we are working with named Marco) has not found our file in PGN.  Yesterday, after waiting a week since being told that we were infact being submitted, I emailed Adrian.  I asked him why our file could be found in PGN.  He responded.  He told me that he took our file to get submitted and the PGN attorney (who is a friend of Adrian and works on the side with him) looked at our file on the side and found an error on the birth mothers Cedula (or ID Card).  A Cedula is like our Driver's License and Social Security Card combined.  Anyway, he said that next week he would have the correction.  It was in such an unimportant tone that I about blew.  I had all I could take, and believe me, I felt like I could take not one more let down.  I didn't know what to think.  I've heard horror stories about errors with the Cedula's.  I was so angry that he has had this card of hers since the baby was born and was first now catching this!?  I sent back a sharp email stating why couldn't he just submit us to PGN anyway, and work on the rectification of the card.  That way if we did not get kicked out of PGN for it, no big deal.  If we did get kicked out of PGN, we would have the fix.  It wasn't long before I got a sharply stated email back from Adrian.  He basically told me to let him do his job.  That this is the reason he doesn't work with families, but with agencies, and I have been a big exception!  He put me back in my place quickly.  Although I have every right to be angry and I can complain all I want, the fact remains he is right.  He is in charge.  He holds Rylan's fate in his hands and there is NOTHING anyone can do about it!  If he told me today he was done and finished and refused to work with us, this adoption would be all but over.  Rylan would be moved to an orphanage and that would be that.  I replied back to Adrian saying ok, you win.  Well, not exactly like that....but rather, I apologized.  I agreed that I need to trust him and I pretty much had to crawl back into his good graces.  He then sent me another email saying - Dear Karla, I understand.  Do not worry, I will take care of this.  So this is where we sat last evening.

I forwarded the emails to Marco from Adoption Supervisors.  He called me today (on his day off).  He pretty much told me exactly what I needed to hear right now - that the birth mothers cedula can be fixed!  Thank GOD!  He agreed that when Adrian told me he could have it done, he was right.  There is no reason it can't be completed next week.  He told me that not being submitted to PGN is wonderful news.  I didn't understand, until he explained.  If we had been submitted to PGN the reviewer of our file would have caught the error and ordered a much more complicated fix that could have taken months!  They may have ordered the cedula not be changed, but rather birth mom's birth certificate, the baby's birth certificate, the court reports, the pre-approval and all the other paper work be changed to match the cedula!  Yikes!  This has happened!  So a blessing in disguise?  I think so!  It still makes me mad that this wasn't caught before, but I can't change that.  What is done is done and we must go on.

On a lighter note, we had a phone conversation with foster mom Tuesday night.  We tried the webcam again and guess what, we got it to work!  We saw Rylan!  He looked amazing and gorgeous, and so healthy!  We were connected with them for about 40 minutes and had a good time talking.  We had a problem though, they couldn't see us!  Towards the end of our conversation we got our camera going, then they saw us!  Rylan was pointing at me on the camera as I was blowing him kisses and waving.  It was pretty amazing!  Unfortunately John and Cameron were not with me at my moms when we were doing it.  It was 9pm when we called them (because Guatemala is behind us in time), so it was to late for them to be up.  Cameron had preschool the next morning and John really didn't think we would get it to work.  We have another call set up for tomorrow - Sat - at 11am our time (10am their time).  Cameron will get to see his little brother in action - and Rylan will get to see him too!  I have to say it was pretty neat to, my mom and dad both got to see Rylan!

Sorry this post is so long, but I have so much to catch you all up on!  Rylan is doing great and I can't stress to you how difficult this has been.  Seeing him just made me want him here more than before, and I didn't think that was possible!