Warp speed halted......

So I have had a few people ask me where we are at and thinking they haven't heard anything in a while in regards to our adoption. When you fly at warp speed for 4 months and then come to an abrupt stop---it does seem wierd. I believe this will be the first of our many "waits".

You can always check out our "Adoption Timeline" at the top of the blog to see where we are at. Everything went so fast at first, but now we are waiting on our fingerprint approvals and the all important form that says we have been approved to adopt by the US government. I had a dear friend whose turn around from being fingerprinted to getting this form was 8 days---so of course I was thinking that would happen for us too. Everything else seemed to go so fast. Then I got on our Yahoo group of those adopting from Ethiopia to survey their wait times. It was anywhere from 3 days to 12 weeks! I find that to be a frustratingly large window. Each day I go to the mailbox hoping that paper is in there. (Sort of like waiting for the positive sign on a pregnancy test when you have been trying). We were fingerprinted exactly one month ago--so it has only been 4+ weeks....but I can see where the waiting game can begin to drive a person mad. I can only imagine what that is going to be like in the future as we truly get on the waiting list.....I have friends whose hearts are ripped out of their chest waiting on certain approvals, referrels, court dates, and traveling. Anyways, I had got my hopes up thinking we would be a waiting family by the end of May, then I thought well for sure by Father's Day, and honestly....I am hoping by the time the school year starts we will know what number we are on that list.

So to clarify, once we get this long awaited approval, our already completed dossier will be state certified and then sent to D.C. to be authenticated and THEN we will be officially a waiting family. Then we get to really WAIT as God and the Ethiopian govt./our agency matches us with our little girl. At some point we will receive a referral for us to say yes to---this could be anywhere from 4 months to 12 months. Then we get to WAIT for a court date, WAIT to travel to meet her for the first time, and finally come back home and WAIT for our reconciliation date where we go back to Ethiopia a second time to bring her home. Hope that clears up where we are in the process.....

Encourage me to worship while I am waiting. Here are the lyrics to what is sure to be my mantra for the next year or so....

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Thanks for listening & praying & hoping & wishing......