let's see, just before we filed our adoption petition with the court, casey johnson died and the resulting news stories screwed everything up in our process here. then two days before we finally got our first meeting with the judge, a pennsylvania couple was arrested for the death of the boy they adopted from russia, causing an anti-adoption firestorm in the russian media (which also dominates in kazakhstan) and further jeopardizing our process.
but now we've finally weathered these delays, staying here more than twice as long as we were originally supposed to and put up with the fact that noz jr. was condemned to months of additional time being cared for by an institution instead of a family. it's only natural that this story would come out just two days before our long awaited court date.
