WAITLIST!!!!

Well, today God answered my prayers that we'd be on the waitlist before I traveled to Haiti. Kinda movie-style-dramatic waiting till the last day, no? We got an e-mail first from Kate Sawyer saying our Dossier was send to a courier in Washington DC, who I think will be responsible for taking it to the appropriate offices there and then FedEx-ing it to our agency staff in Ethiopia, THEN we got a beautiful e-mail from our case worker officially saying that that all means we are now officially waiting!! YAAAYYY!!!

So for those who are curious and don't know, here's the break-down:

-Approximately anywhere from 7.5-10 months from now (current ave: 8.5) we'll receive a referral for a child

-Approximately 2-3months from accepting a referral, we will receive a court date, which should be about a month out

-We will travel to appear in court in Ethiopia, and to meet our child for the very first time!!! This trip will be about 5-7 days long, and while there we'll get to do a lot of sight-seeing, which sounds super fun!! Unfortunately they tell me that during this trip we will only be with our child for rief, scheduled meetings... bleh, I can't even think about that right now

-Approximately 3-6weeks after pass court (not everyone passes the first time, due to delays, etc) we will travel the second time. This trip will be about a week long, and we get to just chill with our babe in our hotel room and focus on sweet bonding time!!! And then, we'll come home, forever a family :)

-Soooo we're APPROXIMATELY looking at the end of May-the end of September to bringing our baby home!!!

Praise the Lord for His grace and mercy! For loving us and taking care of us! And for being the one who's put this adventure in our lives, and who's in charge of it! I pray that in His mercy, He would be gentle with our sweet baby's birthmother (she's probably pregnant by now), that He would open her heart to His saving love, and that He would comfort her in her distress. I pray that he would keep our baby safe, clean, warm, dry, and fed until we can bring him or her home. I pray that the Lord would spare our baby from sickness and pain, and comfort him/her if they come. I pray that someone would love on and hold our baby until we can. I pray that the Lord would equip us to love this child through and through, and and give us the wisdom we need to be it's parents. YAAAYYY!!!!