It has been a while since I have written anything about our adoption. Well there is nothing, nada, zilch to report. We are still waiting and waiting and WAITING some more. I wish I could write it is going well but I hit a bottom last week. Maybe I have been reading too many blogs.
Anyway it will be 3 months 3 weeks and 3 days on Tuesday since we finished the paper work part. I remember seeing 2m 2w 2d mark and at that point I was hoping we wouldn't see the the 3 3 3 mark. I was also hoping that we would know something by the end of the summer before school started. Here we are in the middle of September and NOTHING. The hard part is that we know there haven't been any referrals for about 2 months. I know that our coordinator was in Ethiopia for 2 weeks and Ethiopia just celebrated their millennium. Until this point the referrals seemed to have been coming regularly.
The hardest part has been not knowing if we will have our little girl for Christmas. I would love to but at this point we are running out of time. Fil believes we would have to get the referral withing next three weeks in order to travel by Christmas since it takes about 10 weeks with the court date and embassy and travel.
It is all in God's hands and I have to believe this is for the best. We are praying for our little girl every day that she is in good hands and has all she needs. We can not wait to hold her in our arms and I can not wait to see all of my children playing together.
On the other hand we started our shots. I got three of them today. OUCH! We also gave the kids Hep A shots since it has been recommended for family members who do not travel. We have an appointment on Monday at the travel clinic for the big shots like yellow fever and typhoid so I am sure I will post about that. We had to split it for the insurance to cover it. At this point the insurance will pay for all of our shot which is a big relief.
Today Fil and I went to the Travel clinic where they specialize in immunizations for people who will be traveling to different parts of the world. Since we are people that do their research we knew we would be getting yellow fever and typhoid shots. We were not so sure about the yellow fever shot since it can have bad side effects. We are not planing on traveling outside of Addis Ababa but after more research we decided to get the shot. So far so good. We both have sore arms and I have a headache which is from the typhoid shot. Hopefully we will not get any nasty reaction later on. The rest of the shots I got at our doctor office and Fil will get his on Friday. We had to do this for insurance to cover the cost and since each shot is around $75 we were willing to split up where we got the shots.
