Update on Plans

Hi all,

Unfortunately, we now have our plane flights back to the UK booked for
early this week. Yesterday, we had to kiss our babies goodbye, which
was pretty much as awful as we thought it would be.

Our overall timeframe should remain the same, the only real change is
that I will be at home (rather than in Addis) for the bit in the
middle. Our completed paperwork was submitted to the Ministry of
Womens Affairs here on Friday, and we are now waiting to be allocated
a court date. We may find out our allocated court date sometime in
the next two weeks - once we know what that date will be (likely to be
around sixish weeks from now) we can make plans for our return.

We are finding the thought of this long separation very hard. We know
that most people who adopt from the UK need to go through this, but we
were hoping to avoid it, and really weren't prepared for how hard it
would be.

We know that some of you have been praying for us and for our babies,
and we appreciate it more than we can say. We have found this sudden
change of plans difficult to deal with (obviously!), and we have very
much appreciated support from family and friends.

We are really dreading going home to an empty house, since I (C) had
thought that next time I went back to Reading it would be with two
wriggly bundles. I also feel extremely stupid since I said all my
goodbyes for three months and will suddenly be back again in less than
three weeks! No teasing please, unless you want to see me cry.
Although you will probably all see me cry anyway.

Lots of love

Caroline and John