Have EP's Started?!?

So much craziness going on with the adoption process recently. The new law that was put in place last Aug has been boggling the minds of the Korean court system who back in Feb decided we needed to travel to Korea and appear in court...say what?!? That would tack on 2-3 weeks to our trip and a hefty amount to our budget. But we'd make it work. Come March, this proposed requirement has been overturned. So we're back to a one week trip (probably).

The other big change that came to light in Feb is that birthmothers were going to be sought out to relinquish their parental rights again....hello, can you repeat that!?! So we still don't know that our little guy will be ours and will wait until it's our turn. His birthmother will be asked to make the same tough decision twice in her life and who knows the answer may be different this time around.

During these past few months nothing much has happened in the way of movement on submitting kiddos for exit : ( BUT alas today, finally we hear news from families that were matched back in Dec 2011 and Jan 2012... they've received notification that their paperwork is being prepared. They soon should be submitted for their exit permit and then the anticipated court review and approval. This whole process could take up to 3 months to complete. Finally they'll get to travel. 

So yeah for MOVEMENT. Yeah for a niblet of PROGRESS. And yeah for the LIGHT at the end of the tunnel. Fred and I will continue to sit anxiously awaiting our turn.  However, it's really any ones guess when they'll get to May 2012 matched families. But we'll be ready!