The Inside Scoop

I made a few more phone calls last night to a few more Home Study agencies. A few called me back today. One agency from Chicago gave me their program fees and told me a bit about their process. A process, I may add, that seems much more reasonable then the local agency. As I was talking to the director she asked me if I had heard the "recent news" coming out of Ethiopia. I had no idea if I had hear the most "recent news" as I all I have read is news news and more news about Ethiopia. She said there was a release yesterday about an investigation into 200 orphanages in Ethiopia and the agencies that work with them. 98% of the orphanages were out of compliance and according to this gal, the government is considering a moratorium in Ethiopia. I called our placement agency to see if there was any truth to this information and they had not heard anything of it. I then received a phone call from another Home Study agency (with wayyyyyyyyyy cheaper fees and reasonable process) and I asked them about it as well, and they too had not heard of it.

Later, Agency A called me about some questions I had and I asked her for further information on the moratorium. She said that tomorrow at 4pm they are having a conference call. She said there may be some changes coming, but there is no way to know until tomorrow. So we wait. I can wait till tomorrow. That's not a long wait. Just till tomorrow.

We are still waiting on 1040 forms (my fault, I am terrible at getting things to our accountant), requested forms from the insurance company stating that our adopted child can carry our insurance and a family photo. Hopefully all will go well with the conference call will go well and we can move forward with our paper submission next week!!

I've been blog stalking today to see if anyone else is in the know about the possible moratorium, and the blog world seems to be in the dark. I hope and pray and hope and pray that there is no validity in this. I scanned through other countries, and China is the only other country with an infant adoption program and their wait is 3+ years.

So we wait. :) We don't even have acceptance into the program and we are already waiting.

We have to submit a picture of the front of our house with our home study application, so tonight I leave you with this... the snow will be here before you know it!