patience.....

I did send the first copies of our dossier to our agency a few weeks ago and guess what....we had done some things incorrectly and were missing one document that I thought the agency provided, but our home study provider got it for us. About the time that I found that out, the girls and I were getting ready to leave for New York with my mom for a few days. After you do so much work, it is heart breaking to find out you have to do some of it over, but I decided to just step away from it for a few days. Yesterday, I sent the new copies for approval so we are hoping that this time everything is done correctly. If so, then the next step is to have each document authenticated in Raleigh, then our dossier will go to Washington for approval and then finally to Ethiopia. We had hoped to have everything there by the first of April but now we will hope by the end of April. We did recently find out that now the wait for a girl referral is about 4 months...when we started the wait was about 6 months. Honestly, we just don't know when it will happen. Ethiopian courts also close in August and September. My concern is that we will get out referral and see her face and then it will be September and we'll just have to wait for courts to reopen to move forward. If that happens, we just have to trust that it's all part of the plan. We did have a wonderful time in NYC and the boys had fun at some of the NCAA games. Thank you to my mom for giving us a wonderful trip that we will never forget!! We hope to hear good news on Monday that all of our paperwork looks good....if not, just keep praying for our patience.