Doin' the Happy Dance!

FINALLY! Today was the big day that we sent all of our adoption paperwork off. It is a huge relief to have everything done. I have been staring at these papers for months, making sure all I's were dotted and T's crossed. On Christmas Eve we received the final paper in the mail that we had been waiting for. We then had to send everything off to the state capitol to get state certified. We received the papers back today and I had to make 3 copies of everything and send the originals plus 2 copies to our agency. The agency puts the papers through what's called a bundling process and then every paper needs to go to Washington DC to be authenticated. All of this will take approximately 3 weeks and then off to Ethiopia they go! Yay! After that we just wait to be matched. We are told it could take any where from 2 to 9 months to get the referral. We're praying for God's perfect timing and can hardly hold back the excitement as we get closer to meeting our 4th child. We all went to town this afternoon to send the papers off UPS. When I got back in the car we said a prayer that the papers would safely, and without delay, make it to Ethiopia. Hopefully everything is done correctly and things will go smoothly from here on out. This in a huge step closer to our baby girl! This how my desk looked today as I was organizing all of the papers. This isn't even all of them! It's been a long process but all so worth it to be blessed with a child at the end of it all.