Wednesday, June 1, 2011

How's the Adoption Process Going?

We keep getting a lot of questions about where we are in our adoption process. We haven't had much to say because we don't really know. And what we do know is so hard to explain.

After the last major announcement about the slowdown, there has been nothing new to report. The slowdown in processing cases is in effect, and we are all still waiting to see what that actually means. This year, so far, there have only been 3 infant referrals from our agency. Seems like about every other month, there is one infant referred from our agency. Of course, that information doesn't really help us because we don't know where we are on the list.

We talked with our caseworker 2 weeks ago and asked a lot of questions. Many people we are acquainted with have been making some personal changes, such as increasing age ranges, adding a second adoption and even deciding not to adopt and live a childless life. I guess the bottom line is, after exploring our options, we are still committed to Ethiopia.

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