The Waiting Place

"You get so confused that you'll start in to race, down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace, and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place...for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting." Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss

Nicole, our Family Coordinator from America World, called Friday to say there was no new news in regard to our court case. We totally appreciated the call but find ourselves in a not so fun waiting place:

* for the number to be changed on the piece of paper that will allow us to pass court and the boys to be legally ours which will lead to tentative travel dates
* a new I171-H form which would mean our age range increase has been approved - this will lead to waiting for the form to be forwarded to the National Visa Center which will lead to waiting for the information to be forwarded to the Ethiopian Embassy in Addis Ababa which will lead to concrete travel dates

Add this to the uncertainty of life and international adoption, and we are working hard to stay joyful!

I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in him. Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion. Isaiah 8:17-18