Finally, the ordeal is over

Although only a few people knew about it, last June 2007, one year ago, I sent the squares, as well as a check and all of the expensive trimmings that make a quilt comfy and nice, to a quilter who had been referred to me. This person has a website and seemed so nice. She promised we would have our 4 quilts (the One Hundred Good Wishes Quilt for our future daughter Mei Ling Mercedes, as well as 2 matching beach themed quilts for Mei Ling and her big brother Sebastian, and one quilt for my godson Esteban) by mid November. She said everything was going great, and then by mid October she disappeared. No more answered emails. By this time, she was already living in the States, since prior to, she had been living abroad. I sent emails literally begging her to return our stuff, and nothing. I am an attorney, and so I told her I would take legal action. Nothing. Well, apparently she figured I had no way to reach her in the States, but she figured wrong. I had gotten her address from a friend of mine. And so, this time, my dh sent her an actually nice letter. Better him, because I was not feeling nice by this time. And she finally saw we knew where she was and could not get away, and miracles of miracles, yesterday I received a huge box with a check with our money, and all of our stuff.

I don't know if this has happened to anyone before. I don't think we are the firts. But I can tell that this really messed me up. As everyone who has collected squares knows, a lot of time and good faith, and nice thoughts are invested in the collecting of these squares. We had over 60 squares from family members and friends, as well as squares from many new friends from my One Hundred Good Wishes Quilt web club. I could not believe that someone who knew (I had told her about our past history and about how we came about getting into the international adoption route) what had happened to our family could do this to us.

However, I have decided not to publicly say who this person is. However, if anyone who is planning on sending their stuff through the mail wants to send me an email, I can confirm whether at least it is not the same person we used. I still can not believe this person's gall, to play like that with our feelings. To think that at one poing my dh was even thinking that this was a sign that maybe the adoption was not meant to be. That has long taken care of, but the thing is that this person's actions did affect our family, and it really pisses me off. She certainly returned our things, and I am thankful that at least now I will have the opportunity to still have the quilts done, but shame on you, if you ever read this.

And please, if someone from Puerto Rico knows a local quilter (I am not mailing this stuff EVER again), please send me the information. I would really appreciate it.