Two steps back

You know how we announced on Monday that we're planning to adopt from Ethiopia? Well, on Wednesday I got an email from our adoption agency reporting that the Ethiopian government wants to take a closer look at the way adoptions are handled, so they're only going to process five adoptions each day (they have been processing 45-50/day for the last half dozen years, from what I understand). That means that our anticipated wait of about a year has the potential to stretch out to ten years. They say that the move is a temporary one, but I don't think anyone knows what temporary means. So we're reconsidering our options. There are other international adoption programs we qualify for, so we'll have to decide if we want to commit ourselves to some uncertainty with Ethiopia, if we want to investigate other countries, or if we want to rethink committing ourselves to the process altogether. I'm pretty bummed about the whole thing, but I guess it's good that it happened at this stage in the process for us. I can only imagine how heartbreaking it must be for families who are already matched with a child to have to wait so long until they can bring those children home.