Courts are open! This means that cases can be processed again. Families with referrals will have their cases go to court in Ethiopia. After passing the courts, they will be given travel dates. As families travel to pick up their children, more room opens up for children at Hannah's Hope. That means more families can be connected with their children-to-be. This is, of course, a very general description of what happens. Its much more complicated. (Referrals aren't directly and that simply connected to space at HH, but there is a bit of logic in it.) But, the opening of court is a reason for all in the adoption waiting process to rejoice nonetheless.
Speaking of waiting, we've passed the 3 month mark on the girls' wait list. When we first started in the Ethiopia program, we were given a 4-6 month wait time. Now its around 6-8 months, which is still incredibly short -- believe it or not -- in the adoption world. At the actual rate that things are going right now, we could very well receive a referral by 6 months -- but there are no guarantees. Everything seems so much longer though because we've been at this so long. All told it will be three years this Thanksgiving since we first applied to adopt. Ugh. Well, it goes without saying that God knows why the timing has worked like it has...and we already see the providence in much for it. But three years is still a very long time to be "expecting"!
And speaking of expecting, if all goes as it has in the past, we should be receiving our THIRD and final -- hopefully! -- FDL in the mail this week. Pray that they corrected that silly mistake on there, because while it won't make or break our case, its just one more unknown that could bug some official somewhere and prolong the process. Yuck.
We should also get our official, updated wait list number this week. We're pretty confident that we're Number 14, but only the Powers That Be (ie. Julie) know for sure!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Courts Opened Today!
Posted by Sarah at 9:08 PM
Labels: court closure
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3 comments:
Yeah! Praying for all of those moms waiting.
Abby is praying for a baby sister from Ethiopia. :-) Every time she sees a plane she wants to jump on it and go get her baby.
It sounds like you are also starting your 3rd trimester this week! Praise that things are moving forward. It must be so intense thinking about your daughter every day and wondering where she is and what she is doing.
God's timing will be perfect as always!
Praying for that FDL! I hope it comes back correctly. BTW Christy told me that if I was still waiting, update e-mails would come out the first full week in October, so you may have to wait until next week for confirmation of you number. Sorry. I hate the wait too.
Amy
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