On its way to Ethiopia!!!

I just got the best news from our caseworker at Kidslink/Imagine. Our dossier was back from the embassy in Ottawa yesterday, and has left for Addis Ababa this morning! I had prepared myself for the 3 week wait in Ottawa (from their 2-3 week estimate) of how long it would take to get everything authenticated. The night before I was praying so hard that instead of the 2-3 week estimate, it would somehow be processed in 1 week and that I would get an email the next day. I knew it had happened before and that it was possible, and I hadn't prayed that hard since the night I prayed my sister would have her baby on March 1st the day I was off of work (and she did!). Anyways, sure enough the next day I got the email saying it was back already! With mailing times, this means it was done in exactly 5 business days! I'm definitely celebrating this because I know it is very well the last thing that will ever happen "fast" in our adoption.


We are now officially expecting from Ethiopia. By the time our dossier arrives in the right place it may be next week but I am starting to count down now! In approximately (give or take of course) 3-5 months we will look at our son's face! Wow, this whole process is starting to feel a lot more real.


Thank you so much to everyone... friends, family, yahoo friends, fellow adopting mom's that look at blogs obsessively, for all of your encouragement along this tedious paperwork journey. Now we get to sit and wait... I've never been so happy to be on a waitlist.

selam.