May 23, 2010

Howdy!
We met with the director for Dove, our national agency this past week. We were super excited to get the details, but surprisingly we got a bunch of "I don't knows?". We will be the first group of families traveling to Ethiopia twice after all the laws changed. Normally our attorney would represent us and when everything was over in court we would be notified when to meet at the US Embassy and be able to petition for adoption and take them home. Now we must appear at these court hearings. She said normally they are scheduled 2-3 weeks in advance. We are for sure not going to court in May since those spots are booked. So as soon as they can get our paperwork completed, dossiers for the boys and a court date set in stone we will be notified. Then we will have 2-3 weeks to be in Ethiopia to go to court with our attorney. We don't really like being the guinea pigs since no one has gone before us with the new laws, but fortunate to be able to. Now we are simply waiting to get court scheduled and paperwork done so we can book our first trip. Hard to plan our lives around a trip that we have no idea when will take place. They are still estimating it will be 4-6 weeks from our referral,but since we are first we just are not sure. he court system closes for annual holidays basically the whole month of August, so we are praying that we are in and out of court by August, so our boys don't hit a delay in their travel home because of business closures.
Thank you for all your well wishes and prayers.....obviously they are working and our God is great!