We Got our Court Date . . . But . . .

April 20, 2011!!  That's the date that our little boy may officially be ours!  It has to be a good luck date as it is just two days before our 16th wedding anniversary.  I am so excited to say that in about six weeks I will get to finally hold my future son! We now have to start making travel plans . . . but . . .

Twenty-four hours after we learned of this date we also learned that MOWA, the agency in Ethiopia that writes the approval letters for the adoptions, has publically announced that they will reduce the number of letters they write to FIVE a day starting later this month.  They typically write between 40-50 per day and they aren't written until anywhere from one month to one day before your court date.  The estimates are that this is going to cause LONG delays; even up to a year in some cases.  Why now?    We are so close and have waited so long already.

We are not sure about booking our flights now as we are wondering if our court date may be changed.  I will be contacting our agency director this next week as developments unfold to find out what we should do.  We, along with thousands of others, are hoping this is just a cruel joke or will be at least put off for awhile.

We finally got to bask in the joy of good news---for all of twenty-four hours.