1 month to go until they are ours!!!

Well, here we are. Our court date is one month from today. I wish I could say the wait has been easy and time is flying by, but it hasn't been. This has been the most difficult waiting of the process yet. I know... this is what everyone says and it is hard to believe while you are waiting for a referral, but it is excruciatingly painful. Sure, we have a lot to do to make sure that our home is prepared for these children, but it is hard not to look at the pictures and videos everyday and wonder if our children are being well cared for, if our son is over his infection, and if our daughter is beginning to think that we aren't coming after all.

For now, we try to keep ourselves as busy as possible. We are making the final preparations in our home and we pray constantly that our children are safe, well cared for and know that they are loved more than they could ever imagine by their family that they have not even met yet.

We are celebrating!!!!!!

Today was a wonderful day!!!! Not only did we get our court date but it was also Sofanit's 10th birthday. Our court date is November 24th so we are still hopeful that we get to travel this year. Luckily I checked my email right before we left for dinner with friends who are also adopting from Ethiopia. I had a feeling about today and checked my phone constantly but had not been able to check my email all day. It turned out that we had a lot to celebrate!!!

It really made us feel good to get this news on the day we chose for Sofanit's birthday. That is a story in itself. In Ethiopia, a birthday is not important like it is here. Sofanit's birthday was unknown and we had to choose it. We chose October 10th as her birthday a couple of weeks ago before the courts opened up and now it turns out that we received our court date on her birthday. This adds a lot of significance to the date we chose and in the future it will always be a wonderful celebration. We had felt a little weird about picking a birthday and waited until the last minute possible to give our agency a date. Today it just feels perfect!!!