“You know nothing about Russia.”
Wrong. Best not to judge me.
Exciting times for sure! How many children did you adopt? from which Oblast? or Krais?
Last one was baby house number 3. Rostov on Don. She was three and did not speak. The adoption people gave me roses at the airport when we arrived. We adopted children no one else wanted.
First one was from Arkhangelsk. No name. She was 6.
Unable to wear shoes as her ankles were wrong.
Eventually she had 7 hours of surgery at Children’s in Seattle by the head of orthopedics.
They had to design a surgery because they had never seen anything like that before.
She has a spinal cord disease which made her feet paralyzed.
So all those years the ankle bones grew all funky.
My husband used to take her to the park while waiting on adoption bureaucracy. She told them all about him being her papa from America.
Russian babas brought food, gifts, toys, every evening to the flat.
Russians, esp outside of Moskva, are the kindest people in the world. And I have seen a great deal of the world.
The last one is a long story..