Monday, April 26, 2010

Another week

Well it is the start of another week and still no phone call. The end of the month is coming quickly and I keep hoping and praying we get our referral . Ethiopia has now passed a law stating that adoptive parents must travel to Ethiopia and be present for the court date which was not required before. Any case with a court date after May 8th will have to abide by this new requirement. We are praying that by some miracle we will get our referral and court date before that. The expense of two trips to Ethiopia is staggering but the thought of holding our baby in our arms than having to leave without bringing him with us is heartbreaking.
We were able to get re-fingerprinted last week and are now just waiting for the updated I-171H. We are so close to the end but at the same time it seems so far away. We continue to pray that God would wrap His arms around our baby and keep him safe till we can bring him home.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Could this be the week?

Well ,we are now in the second full week of April and everyday I wake up wondering if we will get the call. I find myself running to check the caller ID every time the phone rings, praying it will say Adoption Advocates. Patience is definitely something I have to work on right now and it seems to get harder every day that passes. I have found the best thing for me to do is to stay busy and focus my attention on other things, which isn't hard when you have four kids. :) Since the wait has gotten longer than we anticipated we discovered our fingerprints are going to expire in May. We applied to the USCIS to be re-fingerprinted and got an appointment to go on Monday. It will be nice to have that done and know that our paperwork is all in order.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The Wait

Welcome to our journey to Ethiopia! Doran and I felt the call to adopt again in the fall of 2008. Since the adoption agency we used to adopt our daughter Mya didn't have an Ethiopian program we started researching other agencies. After some time we felt as if Adoption Advocates International was the agency for us. We mailed our application to AAI in November and started the paperwork. After six months of filling out forms, background checks, fingerprinting and a homestudy we were ready to send in our dossier. Our dossier was sent to Ethiopia May 12, 2009 which officially put us on the waitlist for an infant. The adoption process takes lots of time and patience but as we experienced in our first adoption it is so worth it! We feel so blessed to be on this journey and cannot wait to hold our baby in our arms.