Just A Bump

(Must read previous post for this post to make any sense whatsoever!!!)
Well, I just got off the phone with my adoption co-ordinator Tina. She is amazing!!! I just wrote her an email not 2 hours ago stating that I was in a state of panic over the new regulations for all of Kaz prospective adoptive parents that have sprung up over the last 3 weeks. Here's my email to Tina:
"Tina,
I am in a puddle of tears right now. I don't know what to do. I just sent family announcements out yesterday introducing her as my little girl! I feel like maybe I'm not suppose to be a mother anymore! I can't imagine if I have to tell my parents that this little girl can't be their granddaughter!! They will be crushed!! I will be heartbroken! My heart is breaking right now!
As for the gift from my parents, I could say that I work part time for them (they do own a shoe store but it's in KY not TN...anything to get my Alina here)..... Would I have to come up with another employment verification letter? I don't know if my social worker will "pad" the homestudy or not. I could always ask but I just don't know if she will do it. I will not get the raise at my school until July so I can't prove that I will be earning a higher salary there until then. So that means, if I wait until July to get my new employment verification letter (I just picked up the one's I requested last week today) and have mom make up the fake employment letter saying I work for them, that would put me very close to 55,000. Is that close enough or do they want 55000 and over?
This is in-sane!! I have so much to give a child that is not monetary and no-one, not even China, understands that!!! I'm ready to call it quits if this doesn't work out!!"
She called me instantly when she read this and assured me that this is what it is....just a bump. All we have to do is word the homestudy just right and everything will be ok. Culturally in Kaz, I'm suppose to be taking care of my parents now that they are in their 50's and 60's and not them giving me money even though it's out of the goodness of their heart. Kaz would not look at it that way. They would think that I can't take care of myself and my parents are having to support me when it should be the other way around. So, I/We (my social worker that is) have to think Kazakhstani and not American. We have to re-write the homestudy so it is a resume, per say, for me. It has to make me look good for the powers that be in Kazakhstan. Geez...I'm learning more about different cultures everyday while persuing this adoption..more so than I ever did in any class I could have taken. So, I'll call Penny, my social worker, tomorrow and set up a time to do another re0write of the homestudy. After that, Alla, the Kaz/Russian program director at my agency, will look over the rough draft. She has had only 1 dossier rejected by Kaz in the time that she has been the head of these programs. Tina assured me that Alla will make sure that EVERYTHING is just what Kaz wants to see in the dossier. Tina even says that it is not uncommon for Alla to ask the social worker to re-write the homestudy 2 to 3 times just tweeking little things here and there that will assure me that Alina and I can become a family. Needless to say, I feel much better now. I want this so much it hurts! So, more hoops to jump through but if it means I get my Alina then you bet I'm a jumpin!! Hey, maybe I'll lose a couple of pounds along the way..hehe.