Changing the Change

Hello Everyone.

Well, we just found out last week that Ethiopia isn't making the change we thought they were going to make just yet. Basically, the court system has recommended that the Ethiopian government make it manditory that families travel twice (once to appear at court, once to pick up the child); but the government in Ethiopia can't make the change that quickly. So in the meantime, they are not going to make the switch; which means we might only have to travel once like we originally thought.

We are still simply waiting to get our referral.

Some good news...families who already have their referral are now passing their court dates...which means that babies are being adopted out of Ethiopia (passing court dates hadn't happened for a few weeks, so people were getting nervous). Now that court dates are going through, people are predicting that referrals are next to start coming through again.

Also some good news...according to our calculations and reading of the list of waiting families, we are the next Boy Couple on the list. So hopefully as soon as the referrals starts coming out, we will be one of the first to get one!

Some other good news...I took my Exams for the Masters in Theology program that I have been laboring through for the past three years. The exams spanned 8 hours last Thursday, three 2 hour blocks of time with an hour of break in-between. I was really nervous, excited, anxious going into them, but they all three went well. I should find out how I did in about a week.

That's about all the news I have for now. Thanks for checking in on us.