Update

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It has been a loooong time since I've written anything on here. Like a month and a half long time. I am sorry friends--I know that some of you have been waiting and praying right alongside us on this adoption journey. You see, there just has really been nothing to write. No update. No new news...really.

However, this is what we do know:

Good News: We are slowly making our way to the top of the waiting list. Right now, we are pretty close (extremely close) to the "top" of the list. Of course, there are children in the orphanage already--we are really just waiting for those children to be "paper ready." That means that our agency is doing their homework to make sure that these children are truly orphans in need of families. Some of that paper work is dependent on them and some of it is dependent on other outside sources. It could take weeks or even months before that paper work is completed. BUT when it is completed, we will be matched. That being said, we are relatively closed to being matched with our boy.

Sad News: Many of you may remember when we announced last summer that there had been some changes to the program in Ethiopia. A new process had been implemented into the program from the Ethiopia side--the PAIR process--that would cause a delay in our timeline. Well, from what I understand, as Ethiopia has been putting this process into practice, it has already slowed our process up. Courts had been closed, slowing those in front of us, other outside paperwork, etc. However, the main part of our timeline where the PAIR process will affect us is after our referral, before we are allowed to make our first court trip. The new estimate for us after referral to go for our first trip is 7 months. Following that court trip, it is estimated 2-4 months before our final embassy trip. Now because this is new, these really are just estimates--it could go more quickly or it could go slower...we shall see.

We are praying that we will be matched with our boy by Christmas (although by Thanksgiving would be even more amazing!). If that happens, our estimated first trip would be next summer and our pick-up trip would be next fall. To be honest, that timeline is very hard on this mommy's heart. Please pray with us that the timeline would go more quickly than estimated!

Yet, of this I am sure...God cares even more about my little boy than I do. And God will not bring him home a day later than He has planned. Not one day. God, help me to rest in that.