Almost There

Well, it's been an interesting week. I won't go into the details, but I will say that Nate and I feel even more confident in the decision we have made to adopt our little boy(s)/girl from Ethiopia. It has been a difficult week, but we know that God has used it in a way to confirm the direction we are going with our lives.

We are almost ready to send in our Dossier and completed Home Study! CWA reviewed the rough draft and found no problems, so that is done. We now just have to finish up the training and gather a few more minor documents (i.e pictures of our family notarized varifying that it is actually us) and we will be ready to submit our dossier and home study to the embassy in DC. We have to send a copy of the dossier to CWA exactly how we will be sending it to the embassy. We hope to get that to them by the end of the week. Pending that approval and no problems, we hope to send the dossier through a courier the first week of April. Wow! I eagerly look forward to the next stage of this journey.

Here are a few pictures from the past couple of weeks:

Watching the CWA Ethiopia Training Video

One of several official documents. We thought this looked pretty cool. It's actually just a document stating that we have received our appointment for fingerprinting with US Custom & Immigration.

Here you, go Katrina! These are the fabrics for Baby J's room. To Nate's chagrin, we are not doing a Gold & Black themed nursery. ;)

Here's Baby J's 1st outfit. It was a deal I just couldn't pass up at TJ Maxx. We hope to have a Boilermaker outfit join it shortly.

By the way, I am starting to look at furniture. I have been browsing Craigslist and will be hitting the garage sales that will soon begin. If any of you know where I can find a nice used crib and/or furniture, let me know! I am always looking for a good bargain!