Many changes with our adoption

Hello everyone

Well once again another change in our journey to be parents!!!

Due to many of the changes I mentioned in our last blog, we have decided to end our adoption process with Ethiopia. this was a very hard decision, but due to many many changes in requirements by the Ethiopian courts and US Embassy, there have become too many uncertainties. The reason behind these changes are good and admirable. They are for the best interest of the children so that the governments can be sure there is no illegal actions taking place. In lu of a lot of media coverage in regards to international adoptions, many international programs are changing and becoming more unpredictable.

With this decision came excitement as well. We have decided to start a domestic adoption process. We are excited to get this process started. If all goes well and we are accepted with the agency we like, we could be matched with a child as early as one month!!!!! or up to about 6 months for the longest. The child could be of various different ethnicities,and a boy or a girl, so that we will not be sure of until we are matched and the child is born.

We will continue to keep you posted on the progress. I hope you are able to join as a blog member so that you be notified on our updates. I've made some changes in our settings of the blog so I hope than many of you are able to receive these updates on a regular basis.

Check out some recent pics of our trip to Mexico for my 40th!!! I can't believe I'm 40. I still feel 20 something. That's probably good being that we will have a newborn in the house hopefully very very soon!! Time to get put the smack down and get that nursery ready!

Love to all

Heather and Tom