New MOWA rules

We received an email a week or so ago from Mary (from Gladney) about some changes possibly coming soon from MOWA(Ministry of Women's Affairs) in Ethiopia such as:

1. Adoptive parent(s) must be between 25-55 years of age.
2. Adoptive parents must be married for at least TWO years.
3. Married or single heterosexual individuals must have 5 biological or adopted children or less in the home.
4. There must be a 2 year age difference between the adopted child and a biological child.
5. Both parents are expected to travel to Ethiopia to pick up their child/ren, unless extenuating circumstances are presented and approved.

However, today Mary sent an email saying that the new changes were approved but families who have already started the program, will be "grandfathered" in. The new rules weren't really going to affect us anyway, except possibly #4, but now these don't apply to us anyway! We are constantly looking for good news anywhere about the adoption!!

Oh! and we paid our Home Study addendum fee of $200 to our old agency since we will be using the same social worker! We love her and she is a precious Christian lady who we really get along with very well!