Counting the days

Hey everyone. Well we are still waiting for the court date in Ethiopia. When we last spoke with our adoption agency she emphasized that it was very close. For those of you who do not know we have to have a court date in Ethiopia to do all the legalities to make Jameya (Mimi) officially our child. The adoption agency used to let the adoptive parents know when the court date was scheduled for, but in Ethiopia these dates often got postponed and changed. As you can imagine this was quite a roller coaster of emotions if your court date came and went without any finality. So, although our agency knows when the date is, we do not. Although it is tough to wait, I would rather just get one call with the good news that everything was done than constantly be disappointed. Once we know the court date is done we have about 4 weeks and max of 5 weeks until we can finally go to Ethiopia. What needs to be done in this time is Jameya needs to receive an Ethiopian Passport then all the paperwork gets sent to Kenya, which is the closest Canadian Embassy. What they are doing there is giving her all the proper paperwork and visas to come to Canada. During that time they will also need to get another medical report done and verified. All of this takes 4 weeks from the conclusion of the court date. So, when we have the good news from the court date, we can schedule a flight for 4 to 5 weeks after that. Leah and I are planning on spending 10 days to 2 weeks in Ethiopia getting to know not only our child, but the country that she was born in. Hopefully we will get the good news this week and start to plan to fly to Ethiopia the first weeks of June. So please cross your fingers, pray, knock on wood, send good vibes, toast or whatever you can to help the next 4-5 weeks go smoothly. We just want it to all be done so we can bring Jameya home and introduce her to you all (and of course love her to death and Leah SPOIL her to death!)