Paper Pregnant

This was a new term I saw somewhere on the internet.  We are "paper pregnant".  I am even sick to go along with it!  Caught a bad cold last week and can't get over it.  Life goes on.  I thought that mothers weren't supposed to get sick???  Well, whoever said that lied.  I know that we won't fly over to Ethiopia until we have a court date, which takes about 4 months to get, but....  I had to go shopping and buy our first boy clothes!

I bought Kidane a soft orange and navy blue fleece pullover, a knit cap, and slippers.  Basically, anything that caught my eye.  I was really looking for a winter coat since he could come home anywhere between March and May 2011.  And I know they won't still be selling winter coats at that time of year, but it will definitely still be cold!  It just made everything seem a little more real.  It was fun and therapeutic.  While we wait for the court date we have to really work on fundraising.  Our garage sale was great, still have stuff to sell.  BUT can't do another sale till next summer, I mean this is North Dakota, the land of snow, WIND, and subzero weather.

So if anyone is reading this and has a good idea for a fundraiser then please share with me!  We need prayers most of all so please pray for our family as we wait to bring him home, and please pray for Kidane's health and safety.  Thanks!

Good News

Our social worker told us that when they had a match for us that she would call with "good news".  Well, we have our good news!!!

We are matched with a 7 1/2 year old boy from Ethiopia.  His name is Kidane.  (pronounced Ki-don-ee, the i is short).  I wish I could show you pictures but that is against Ethiopia laws.  Yes, we have a match, but we still have to fly over to Ethiopia, appear in their courts and make it official.  

When do we fly??? Well, we don't know.  They said it is taking about 4 or 5 months right now to get a court date.  Soooo, we wait again. Once we do fly over the first time and do the court thing we come home alone.  Then we wait one more month while the court "processes" the papers. Then we fly over for the 2nd trip and bring him home! 

I know many of you are asking why only one?  I thought you were adopting siblings?  Well, we were asking for siblings.  We knew there was a need for siblings but it was for sib. groups of 3 or more.   Then we found out the next greatest need was for older boys (either in a sibiling group or single child).  Almost all of the older children in sib. groups were 10 - 14 years old; too old for our family since you have to keep birth order.  So God led us to Kidane.

At this time we don't want to share any more specific information until he is able to understand it himself. Right now we don't know how much English he understands if any. We don't want him  to hear about himself from others.