Well as of today we are officially waiting. Our Dossier packet made it to the Holt main office and they have reviewed it and told us everything looks great. We are offficially #23 on the list. Something we found out today that was a little surprising is the list is split evenly between boys and girls. This is not how it was early on and it looks like some people may have switched. We had planned on a boy and were under the impression we would probably get a boy and get a referral pretty quick but it looks like it might take a little longer and we now have an equal chance of getting a boy or a girl. We are truly open to either and are just excited to be waiting.
I know some of you who know me won't believe me but I really am much more calm now that we are waiting. Sarah and I have no timeline that we have to be done by. If you would have asked us at the beginning of the process when an ideal time to bring home our baby would be we would have picked June 1st of 2009. That being said as we started moving forward in the process things started all falling together. We are confident that we are ready whenever it's time to get our child. We'd love our child to be home for Christmas and I think it's very realistic to think we will have a child home by then. We could get one much sooner or even after that.
Please keep the Holt Ethiopia program in your prayers. Ethiopia is a new program for them and they are working out the kinks and we are kind of the test products. We are 100% sure of our decision to use Holt and would do it all over again. That being said there is some uncertainty and some glitches along the way. We figure that if God called us here he must have a plan and we just need to be along for the ride. It's amazing how good the ride is when God is in control.
As we are now in the waiting game the posts won't necessarily be exciting but we plan on posting regularly on various aspects of adoption and things that are going on with us.
From here though it's all waiting! (Maybe God will teach me a little about patience during this process???)
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Congratulations! Let the waiting begin! You will have a host of friends waiting patiently with you! We will be remembering the Holt Ethiopia Program in our prayers also.
CSG
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