Article in Conceive Magazine

The fall 2008 issue of Conceive Magazine just hit the stands. The article that we were interviewed for is "How to Avoid an Adoption Scam" by Joan Fleischer Tamen starting on page 56. Click on the title of this post to read it. My husband thinks it makes us look like idiots. I think it is a good article. What do you all think?

Update

We are beyond frustrated with the Embassy. In traditional Kazak style they have left us hanging for weeks now begging for the simplest answers to our questions. When they actually do respond they answer a minuscule portion of what we asked them. The anger we feel cannot be described. Why would they bother putting this on the table and placing this in our healing hearts only to treat us this way once more? It is beyond callous. It is mental and emotional abuse. To read the e-mail exchange between myself and the Embassy click HERE. I am confident you will see why we are so frustrated and angry.

We got our home study updated and we are just waiting for the final copy of it to mail in with our i600a application. We will wait and see what the Embassy has to say, if anything. It is OBVIOUS that we are not using anyone from AIP and would NEVER think of using ANYONE that Orson associated with. Yet, the Head of the Consular Dept. sent us an e-mail telling us to send our papers to our facilitator as soon as we can! Ummm...WE DON'T HAVE A FACILITATOR! So, once more I e-mailed the same questions I have been asking for over a month now...and we will be lucky if they respond some time in the next week. It really is quite pathetic. Then they wonder why we feel everything they say is lip service. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.

On a different topic: As I have mentioned, we are going through IVF. Yesterday was my retrieval and they retrieved 19 eggs! Today we will find out how many fertilized. God willing we will become parents somehow.