A while back, I asked those of you who are blogging about your adoptions in Russia if I could share your writing with the readers of this blog. Many of you responded in the affirmative, so here is what is going on on the Russia family blogroll now.

I'm going to start with the really good news. Almost two years after Zack and Laura at "The Winding Road to Chelyabinsk" first met their son Dimitry they have finally gotten a court date to bring him home!... more

If you read the mainstream press, you'd come away with the idea that Russia has shut its doors to adoption. As I've said before, it hasn't, and if you want proof you need look no further than the posts and blogs about the referrals, trips and court dates that prospective parents are getting right now. Yes, right now.

Before you jump to the conclusion that something nefarious is going on, remember this: While the accreditations of adoption agencies... more

Laura at "Confessions of a Russian Adoption" got some very good news this past week: a court date! That's something that a lot of people are waiting for these days, so we'll give a collective cheer in her family's honor.

My first court hearing, in 1999, was vastly different than the hearing that cemented my second adoption in 2005. The first hearing lasted 30 minutes, and if memory serves, it was just me, my agency rep, someone from the baby home, the judge and the court secretary. The adoption of my second child... more