We're going to adopt from Bulgaria

After several months of intermittent discussions, we have decided to adopt. Our first plan was to adopt from Russia, and I spent hours brainstorming titles for our new Russian Adoption Blog. We started the home study and even signed up with an agency. Then, on the very day the first draft of our home study was forwarded to us, a US mother sent her 7 year old adopted son back to Moscow unaccompanied. I cried off and on for several days while we came up with a Plan B. We researched various countries and decided that Bulgaria is a very attractive option for us. We're in the process of signing up with a different agency (our original agency operated only in Russia). Our home study will need to be re-written, incurring additional fees, but we feel very optimistic about our decision. Bulgaria, here we come... (eventually, as the process can take an awfully long time, but patience is a virtue)