End of December...

This is a really great time in Romania. "Great" can mean either bad or good. At the end of December all of us who work with the forgotten children of Romania all of a sudden remember that new laws will be coming out within the next week or so. Every January is the same. In 2003 the new law was that all international adoptions were closed. In 2005 it was that foreigners could not longer be foster parents and that all children were no longer truly an orphan until every single living family member had signed abandonment papers for them (it's called abandonment to the 4th degree).
So what will this January bring? Definitely hoping for some changes in all of the above. That adoptions would open up, that foster care would open up, that kids would be allowed out of the country on visits.