So I made the call… to tell the truth I was really quite nervous when I dialed the phone.

I first reached a recording in Thai then in English, but I couldn’t understand the Thai accented English enough to know what to do, so I redialed and had my husband listen.

I was then able to reached the Social Worker K. S that had been recommended to me, she is only in the Bangkok office on Mondays and as my next day off is on Tuesday so I won’t be seeing her, but she assured me that all of the Social Workers speak English and that I could come by any day.  

So my husband and I will be going there on Tuesday assuming we can find the place.  K. S’s English was very accented and I had a difficult time understanding her, and even ended up putting my husband on the phone again to listen to her directions so that between the two of us we might be able to find the building next week.   Wish us luck.

I still feel kind of nervous.  But it is so good to actually be doing something toward our goal of becoming parents. We’ve piddle-farted around to damn long.

~S

He finally emailed me, and I laughed when I saw the email.  It was exactly two sentences.

Those two sentences were basically two names, agencies and phone numbers.  It’s a place to start through.

My work schedule for next week should be out today, when I find out what days I have free I will call and schedule an appointment, then hopefully things will really get started.

~S

I was finally able today to reach my contact by phone and we talked for a few brief moments, I gave him my home email address and he promised to send me some information soon.   So now I’m waiting and checking my email every five minutes… ugh.   Good lesson in patience.  

We had always planned to adopt, we just hadn't realized  it would be our only option. 

After years of fertility treatment, one IVF, numerous inseminations, a pregnancy and shortly after a miscarriage, I'm really tired of waiting.  We first started trying to get pregnant when I was 29. I will be 36 in September and I just want to be a mama.

It's definitely time to move forward with Adoption.

I've spent billions of hours (seriously, billions!)  researching Thailand adoption and feel like I still haven't gotten anywhere. I've been unable to find anyone else (on line) who is an American Expat (non military) living or who has lived in Thailand while adopting.  If you know of someone please ask them to contact me or send me their link.. : )

It appears that adoption is a whole different situation than if we were trying to adopt while living stateside than it is if you are living in that country. I am currently floundering around trying to find a good starting place.

A couple of weeks ago I was introduced to a man who is living here and has just completed an adoption here. I was thrilled to meet him!

Sadly we only had about two minutes to talk before he had to rush off to a meeting. I did learn from him that everything could be done here in Thailand in about half the time as it would take to go through the states and at less expense as well. 

Now I'm dying to know more and since then I have emailed him twice and tried calling once and still can't get a hold of him again.  It's driving me nuts!

I'm not a pushy type person and I try to never bother anyone, but I want this information so bad….. how many calls is to many?

I really want to get things rolling… I want to be a Mama.