Months and months of work, delays, raising money and our paper chase is OVER! I was a mess all morning, carrying around that mass of paperwork almost as carefully as I would my baby! Getting the appropriate money orders for the courier, the US State Dept, and the Ethiopian Embassy and then stuffing it all in a Fed Ex envelop to be overnighted to Washington DC...I thought I was giving my life away. Those papers, so precious, so irreplaceable short of another six months of waiting. I whispered a prayer of protection over them as the Fed Ex carrier took them from my grip. Little did he know how precious and important that package was!
It will arrive tomorrow in DC where the courier will hand deliver it to the State Dept and then the Embassy of Ethiopia, then overnight it to our agency who will then air it to Ethiopia. This is when things get WILD in this journey.
All our work and efforts now move into waiting and nesting. We will be preparing our home and purchasing the things we need for our new children while we wait for a court date for Joshua and a referral for Julianna. Still praying for both kids to come together at the same time, but if not, we will travel twice.
My mom and sister, Amy, are finishing up the decorating in my girls' rooms, so then we will get Caleb and Joshua's room done. A little painting for the boys, a comforter for each bed and dressers. A crib and other baby things for Julianna. The biggest 'mountain' we are praying for is a 7 or 8 passenger vehicle. All these preparations are just like the nesting that happened late in pregnancy. You know the time is drawing close and you automatically start preparing the nest! It's exciting and very, very emotional.
We just returned from Horn Creek, Colorado for our annual church retreat which was powerful. We will post some pictures tomorrow. It was a beautiful weekend.
Thank you for your prayers for our family and for our children just about to stir and awake in a couple of hours in Ethiopia. I (JoLynn) often awake in the middle of the night and my thoughts are immediately on them....they are playing and eating and waiting for us in Ethiopia as we sleep. It's always hard for a mommy to sleep when her children are awake. That makes for some sleepless nights when your children are living halfway across the globe eight hours ahead in time.
Praying for God's vision and anointing to fall on your lives...whatever 'baby' is growing inside of you, whether a job or a ministry, a goal or a dream...we pray that labor comes quickly and those dreams birth in 2008!! It's a year of new beginnings!
We love you!
Kurt and JoLynn
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JoLynn,
I'm finally on your blog! Our dossier should be on its way to Ethiopia very soon. It was sent to DC on the 17th. Maybe we'll end up in Addis at the same time!
Lovely photos of your kids!
Lisa
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