Newest info on court cases

It is unofficial, but hopefully the Ethiopian courts are going to start to hear cases on abandoned kids as early as next week!!! Maybe we will get a court date soon. I pray that we do, and when I say we I mean all the families especially those that have waited longer than we have to finally get a court date and pass so that we can bring these kiddos home. I am really praying hard that we get one before court closure or maybe they won't close at all, that would be wonderful. Well that's all for now, we just returned home from San Antonio and I am so tired. 3:30am comes around way too early in the morning.

Rumors

There have been rumors going around that the Ethiopian courts that close every Aug & Sept will not close this year during thier rainy season because of the investigation that was conducted into a few orphanages. It also states that the investigation is now over and they will start to issue court dates for the children abandoned in Addis Ababa and all the other cases that have been postponed. I just hope that both are true. We just might be able to bring our little Desta home sooner than we thought. WOOHOO!!!!! We already are so in love with her and we've only seen her in a couple pictures. I have now started to finish up her room. I need to find a couple stencils to finish it. I think it will be so cute when I get it done. Everyone here is getting so excited. I can't wait to bring her home.

Contract signed and delivered!!!!

We sent in the signed contract yesterday to our agency. Now we just wait for a court date. We are not sure if she was abandoned or relinquished so we aren't sure if we will be one of those cases that will not be heard until the Ethiopian government makes a decision about what to do. I hope they do soon and everyone that has a court date will pass and be able to bring thier children home. I would really like to be able to bring her home before Jerry leaves for the Middle East, so at least he will be able to go with me and be with her even if it's just a short time. Sometimes I wonder and it scares the you know what out of me that something will happen to him over there before he ever gets to see her and then Mylie will never know what a good man her daddy is. I hate to think like that but I can't help it, there are so many what if's. I just need to focus on something, and Mylie's referral came just at the right time. Getting things ready for her will make the time go by quickly (I hope). I will post more info when I get it.

OMG...... We received our referral!!!

We received the file of an almost 2 month old baby girl this afternoon. Of course we accepted and are just so in shock and in love with her already. She is tiny weighing about 7.7 lbs, but oh so beautiful!!!! I can't believe it. I keep looking at her referral photo and paperwork and thinking to myself is this really happening? Is this our daughter? This has been such a good week for us. First with Levi doing so well with his new foot and so close to getting it, to getting our baby girl's referral. We couldn't be happier. I think we are going to name her Mylie Jaide Desta Maxwell, we may not use Jaide though. Desta is her Ethiopian name and means Happy or Joy. Just beautiful.

Please pray for a speedy court date so that we may bring our beautiful daughter home.

Month 2 in the wait for the girls

Well today is the 2 month mark in our wait for our girls. If nothing has changed in wait times we are looking at possibly getting our referral in about 4 to 7 months. Of course we hope it's closer to the 4 months than the 7 months. I was told that no-one with this agency has waited longer than 8 months so far, I hope that is still the case. And then court is another case altogether, the more I read the posts from other waiting families, the more scared I get that is where the longest wait will be. There have been families waiting 16 plus months since referral of thier children, and that is really scary to me. I was hoping to bring them home a few months before having to go back to work when Jerry gets back from overseas. Sooner or later I will have to for financial reasons. Lets hope the next few months go by as quickly as these last 2 have.

One month down

The 20th is our one month mark of waiting for the girls. It has went by fast, so lets hope the next months until we receive our referral goes just as fast. I think caring for Levi has helped tremendously as he keeps me busy and my m ind off the girls. I can't wait to have them home with us. My only regret is that Jerry possibly will not get the experience of seeing their birth country if he cannot get leave when we are allowed to travel to bring them home. But we will make up for it when he comes home. I will try to keep up the blog, but since there is not much happening until referral it might be a little hard. I guess I could post all the cute things that we have found and people give us for the girls. We will probably need to buy clothes when we find out how old they are and what size, if we don't have the right sizes already. We could possible get twins too so then we will definitely need more because I always wanted to have twins to dress them alike.

Week 2

This is week 2 into the wait for our girls. Some of the posts on the Ethiopia boards that I have been reading have been very disturbing to me lately. I tend to take things to heart and they bother me way more than they should. Makes me wonder sometimes if this is really going to happen or not. Jerry says not to panic it will happen when the time is right. I thought this time around that it wouldn't be so crazy and I wouldn't worry so much, but that isn't the case. I don't obsess about it to the extent that I did before, but it is always still there in the back of my mind. I want so much to be mom to these babies. But it has only been 2 weeks so I will calm down and wait my turn for now.