Ready, Set, Dossier!

I have been super busy lately and haven't sat down to update this blog. So as the boys are playing "Cars/Toy Story" in the living room, I decided to escape with my hot chocolate and update for a bit. (Sure to be interrupted in less than 5 minutes, so I will try to make this snappy!) Where did I leave off?? I believe at the Home Study visits!! We had two Home Study Visits in the beginning of March. They went VERY WELL!! We basically answered every question known to man about our families, our kids, and ourselves. I am never good in these situations. I need time to think over my answers or I sounds outright crazy. For example, the social worker was asking all about me....my upbringing, education, marriage, etc. Then, she asked a few simple questions, like, "What are your hobbies? What do you like? What do you dislike?" Well, the average person would answer that easily, but I had such a hard time with this. (remember, they are writing a report and probably judging every word that exits my mouth). So of course I began to over-think my answer. Hobbies and "likes" was not too hard, but "dislikes" was really difficult. I really sat there forever...."What exactly do you mean?" I asked. " Do you want to know that I dislike watching sports or that I dislike human trafficking?" See! It's hard!!! I think she thought I was crazy, but I really didn't have any little things that I dislike...it was more like huge things, that I don't think she cared about, ha. :) Oh well! So that was the Home Study . The report is now written and on its way with 30 other documents (our Dossier) to Utah, Washington D.C., and then to ETHIOPIA!!! All of our documents should be in Ethiopia around May 1st and then we will officially be on the waiting list!!! I cannot even tell you how excited that makes me. :) The wait time for a referral is about 9 months once we are on the waiting list. SOOOOO, if all goes according to schedule, we will have a referral (picture/info about our child) around March of 2013. When I write it like that, it sounds so far away, wow. After the referral, we then have to wait for a court date in Ethiopia to meet and adopt our child and then a second date to return and get our child!!! Lots of time waiting. So maybe next summer we will be going to Ethiopia. So in the meantime, we wait., and wait, and wait. 

Right now, I am excited to get things planned for our yard sales. Thank you for all of you that have said that you have items for the sale. I hear that clothes and baby/kid stuff sells fast, so if you have items like that that you want to get rid of just let me know. Thanks!!!