24 Days Until Court

Sarah and I go to court in 24 days! Actually our adoption agency Holt will go on our behalf. Please pray that all goes well in court. Ethiopia is becoming a popular country to adopt from and as what happens anytime that American money makes it into a foreign country's adoption arena bad things can start to happen. The sad reality is that almost every country where adoption becomes popular, some sort of corruption happens and the government many times have to shut down adoptions and clean up the corruption. While this has NOT happened in Ethiopia yet in any widespread number it is a legitimate fear of their government. As a result they are insituting new requirements and looking at each case indepth. The result is that the courts are becoming backlogged and families aren't always making it through court the first time. Due to the backlog of court cases it takes several weeks to get a court date rescheduled. Worse case scenario would be for us not to pass court and then not get a new court date until after the new year. We are trusting that everything is in God's time but we do feel that we are to be with our son as soon as possible and are praying that God will grant us court clearance and all will go well. Please pray for us over the next 24 days.

I'm getting ready to start a new blog that will be our blog once the adoption is finished. I've tried to keep this blog strictly adoption related and for the most part have. That being said Tuesday is election day so I'd like to encourage everyone to get out and vote. If you know me at all you know where I stand. My prediction is Obama will win the popular vote by 5% and will win the electoral college by 50. The only way McCain can win, and there is still a real chance he could, is if the voter turnout is not what the Obama camp thinks. I do think a lot of the new voters won't wait a real long time to vote. If that happens and the new voters don't turn out things could get close. I personally will stand in line whatever it takes to vote. While I support true absentee voting like we have in Missouri, this early voting in other states is nuts. People will give years of their lives fighting for our country and right to vote but we can't give up a few hours at most every four years to vote?