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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Update

Well, we are in line for a court date. We hope to hear what our date is from the courts in a few days. The anticipation is tough to deal with. Each picture we get of them gets harder and harder to deal with the fact that they aren't with us. We did get some good news. We were really afraid of the thought of going over to Ethiopia, meeting our sons, and having to leave them at the orphanage and not see them again for 4-8 weeks! Our Adoption agency (Adoption Avenues) just opened up a foster home. This will enable us to move our child from the orphanage to this foster home after the court date and until we can pick them up. This is a huge relief. We will have lots of updates and pictures (the orphanages have pretty strict rules for this). We will also get to be in the same building and have tons of access to them during our court date. The orphanage only gives you limited access. We know god has a plan for us and just hope we can bring our babies home as soon as possible!

An Example of an Ethiopian Adoption

Map of Ethiopia

Map of Ethiopia

Arundhati Roy

Not only is a new world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.

Gratitude


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

It turns what we have into enough,

and more.

It turns denial into acceptance,

chaos into order,

confusion into clarity....

It turns problems into gifts,

failures into success,

the unexpected into perfect timing,

and mistakes into important events.

Gratitude makes sense of our past,

brings peace for today

and creates a vision for tomorrow.