Its open again!

In 2006, Adoptions between New Zealand and Russia were suspended. Russia had concerns due to uncertainties with the process. Finally, yesterday they came to an agreement and now New Zealanders can start the process of inter country adoption with Russia. And although Russia is not part of the Hague Convention on inter country adoptions the arrangement they have decided on meets the Hague standards.

This is music to many couples ears!
My husbands cousin is adopted from Russia. It was a very long and tedious process but the result is so worth it. We were lucky enough to have been able to adopt easily enough within New Zealand. I am unsure if we would have gone done the Russian road if we had too.

So many wrong decisions in my past, I'm not quite sure
If I can ever hope to trust my judgment anymore.
But lately I've been thinking,
Cause it's all I've had to do.
And in my heart I feel that I
Should give this child to you.
And maybe, you could tell your baby,
When you love him so, that he's been loved before, By someone, who delivered your son,
From God's arms, to my arms, to yours.


If you choose to tell him,
If he wants to know,
How the one who gave him life
Could bear to let him go.
Just tell him there were sleepless nights,
I prayed and paced the floors,
And knew the only peace I'd find,
Was if this child was yours.



And maybe, you could tell your baby,
When you love him so, that he's been loved before,
By someone, who delivered your son,
From God's arms, to my arms, to yours.


This may not be the answer,
For another girl like me.
But I'm not on a soapbox,
Saying how we all should be.
I'm just trusting in my feelings,
And I'm trusting God above,
And I'm trusting you can give this baby
Both his mothers' love.

And maybe, you could tell your baby,
When you love him so, that he's been loved before,
By someone, who delivered your son,
From God's arms, to my arms, to yours.