Today we have officially been "in waiting" for one month. It has yet to be seen how many more will follow before we get to travel to Ehiopia to meet our daughter for the first time. This week there was a referral from our agency, but that was the first one that we have seen in quite a while. At the travel expectations meeting last week, our agency told us that they expected referrals to start coming again. In the mean time, we will just try to keep busy educating ourselves and reading other blogs and finding joy in their good news. Knowing that every other family that is completed, brings us one step closer to completing ours.
We are very excited for the growing network of families that have adopted from Ethiopia who live so close to us. It is comforting that we will be able to raise our daughter knowing other children born in Ethiopia that have similar experiences to hers. As we have moved through the process, one of the things that has impressed us the most, is the amazing sense of community that surrounds adoption. Everyone has been extremely supportive and encouraging. For that, we thank everyone that has read our blog and provided support through comments and sharing their own experiences with group posts and blogs. It will be a tremendous help in getting us through the months to come which I hope will be the quickest months of our life, but which will inevitably end up being the longest of our life.
We wish everyone a quick journey and hope to see a flurry of referrals all followed by quick and successful court dates! We also look forward to meeting more of you that our sharing in this incredible journey to Ethiopia!
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I look forward to meeting you too! Hopefully we can manage to get together before we travel to Ethiopia, although I'm sure you'd be much more interested to meet me after we bring home a cute little baby...:-)
We couldn't agree with you more about having a community of families around us. There are more families popping-up on this side of the state which is great just because it's more convenient and will be easier for the kids to see each other. We just met up with two families last night and had a blast with them! All of us are really excited for you and hope we can meet you soon. This was a good week for AAI - two referrals of infant boys and three successful court dates all on their first tries!! We have to keep the faith that things start moving again and that some consistency will return....believe me, it's all I think about every single minute!! Take care! Beth
Congrats on making it one month! We've been waiting 3 1/2 months, and the waiting is really starting to get hard...and it could be awhile yet! :) It will be great to meet you one of these days...at one of the next get-togethers maybe?
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