Our adoption agency is awesome! They are a Christian agency and we used them for our China adoption. It was an easy choice for us to use them again for our Ethiopia adoption. They have an on-line chat group that allows families from our agency's Ethiopia program to get to know one another. Well, this group is awesome! There are tons of e-mails every day filled with prayer requests, travel info, referral info., etc. So, naturally, lists have been created of who is where in the process (our agency does not reveal this information). This is an unofficial list, but we believe that we are approximately #7 in line for a girl referral, so we think there is a strong possibility that we will hear something sooner than quoted.

Welcome to our blog! We are very excited and feel blessed to be adopting again! We are requesting a little girl, 0-6 months of age. The current wait time for an infant girl is 9-11 months from DTE, (Dossier to Ethiopia/paperwork done) to referral, but as we know from our China adoption, this is just an estimate and not a guarantee. On August 9th, we will have waited 7 months from DTE, so we are hoping to hear something between October and December. Once we receive and accept our referral (picture and history of our baby), we can expect to wait several more months before we travel. We will spend about a week in Ethiopia.