A little background:
I have two biological children from a previous marriage. A teenage daughter and pre-teen son. My husband and I adopted a baby boy from Kazakhstan in 2007.

Where we want to be:
Our amazing son has brought so much happiness and laughter into our lives that we are now thinking of adopting again. We would love to have another child. Also, we would love for our son to have a sibling close to his own age. My older kids are 9 and 11 years older than him. The two of them are really close to each other and I think their close ages are part of that. We would like for our Baby Boy to get to experience that too. So for many, many reasons we would really like to adopt one more time.

Where we are now:
Right now we are realistically just in dreaming and wishing mode. As much as we would like to adopt again we are not certain if we can really manage another adoption financially. We are taking this time to research many things. We are trying to decide on which country we would like to adopt from. We would adopt from Kazakhstan again but the time required to stay in country is just too much. It was so hard for me to be away from my kids when we were there to adopt our son. On the 3rd week I was nearly in tears every day from missing them so much. I do not want to have to do that again. The other issue with Kaz is that there are so many families flocking to the Kaz program that the wait times are becoming longer and longer. Many families are switching from the China program because of it's long wait and this is causing the wait time for Kaz adoptions to start backing up. Really, I am afraid that Kaz will be making some major changes to their program soon too that might cause more issues, delays and possibly a shut down for awhile.

So, we are researching countries other than Kaz right now. China is certainly out as an option for us. Guatemala is having serious issues right now and is in danger of complete shutdown so that country is out as well. The process for Ukraine makes me uncomfortable. I don't like the idea of traveling over to another country and then having to look through books of profiles and try to select a child that way. Also, I have read recently that the youngest children being adopted there right now are 4 years old. We want a child younger than our son and he is only two. We are still considering Russia but really do not feel that is where our next child will come from. There are things I like about the Hungary adoption program, but like Kaz they require a long in country stay. That means Hungary does not fit what we are looking for either. The two countries we are very seriously considering right now are Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. They are both relatively new programs but by the time we would actually be ready to start the adoption process they should be pretty well established. We meet the requirements for both of these countries and they both have fairly short in country time.

We are also researching agencies since we were not happy with the one we used to adopt our son. Also, and this is the BIG one, we are trying to find out a way to afford another adoption.

So, the big question right now is....... WILL I BE A MOM OF FOUR???????