wednesday went well

Thank you to all of you for your thoughts on Wednesday. Especially, thank you to our children's teachers for your thoughtfulness and excitement for our family. I love our school and Wednesday was just one of many days when I am reminded of why we choose for them to be there. All of the teachers were doing whatever they could to make the afternoon go well for us and taking time during class to pray for our family. I love each one of you! We did have our home visit and it went well. Our home study provider is so nice and easy to talk to and she has lived this same journey as she has two adopted daughters. They actually came with her that day since her babysitter cancelled, and our children loved playing with them. She will come back again next week and then we will work on getting our dossier completed. The dossier is a huge amount of paperwork that is sent directly to Ethiopia. I feel like we have a lot of it completed, but I have grown to expect delays and surprises. Hudson said the other day "once we do our homestudy, can we just go get her in two weeks". The hardest lesson for all of us will be learning to be patient. In one sense, you want to be prepared, but then you are afraid to do something too soon (like setting up her room), because that may make the wait seem even longer. I'll keep you posted as things change.