Through an odd situation the link below isn't going to be updated anylonger, sorry.

I am attempting to build a new adoption blog and will post the link as soon as i have it ready.

For those of you who are curious i'll past the update i sent to my thai adoption group.

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I saw the Thai Social worker on Tuesday, it was a fairly quick meeting.  Thank goodness her English was decent, because my Thai is extremely limited.  She gave us a handful of paperwork and briefly went over it with us.  She explained that as diplomats a few steps will be simplified for us because in the case of documents assuring that the child will be able to enter the use/gain a visa etc  are easily obtainable for us through the embassy, but other than that it is pretty standard.  We have to gather all of the documents together as quickly as we can and return them to the case worker.  She said (I hope I understood correctly) at that point she would make a call to arrange for our home study.

They only requested two references from us and we have been debating over this.  We only know one person in Thailand who has known us for more than a year, so we will ask him to be one of our references, and the other will have to be friends from the States.

They only requested 4 photographs; does anyone know if it is frowned upon to include more?  I had kind of planned to make up a little scrap book.

And lastly.. the one thing that was said that I had dreaded.  Just before we left the social worker asked me how much I weigh, of course I only know my weight in pounds and she didn’t give me time to try and convert the numbers in my head.  She said I was very heavy and that I should lose weight.  : (

I have worried about this for some time, but had lulled myself into thinking it wouldn’t be an issue. I’ve been reading Thailand adoption blogs for a while now and have seen families adopt who were my weight and even larger so I thought it wouldn’t be a concern.  I am between 55-65 lbs overweight and have been this weight for about 14 years.   Losing weight isn’t something I’m good at, but I’m determined to not let it jeopardize our chances of becoming parents.  I’ll starve if I have to!

~Sanorah