Updates - FINALLY

So, I can't believe how long it's been since I gave you a "real" post and by real I mean one that tells you about how this adoption is going for us and how I am feeling about it all and what Darryl and I have been up to. Well, I can tell you that although I am still caught up on everyone else's blogs, and check the message boards like every 30.2 seconds, I am not even close to as obsessed about this adoption as I was last year at this time. I guess the reason is that I know I am in for a really long wait but with Zambia I thought that it was going to be next week, every week and so I would wake up and think adoption. Now, I still wake up and think adoption however, I think good things and am dying, really dying, to hear everyone "in front" of me tell their stories of referrals, their travels, the gottcha days or quick court dates or slow ones for that matter. I have been quiet but am quietly celebrating with everyone else. So, I apologize for my absence but it is worth my sanity.

So, for those of you not in the program, it seems the wait for referrals is lengthening by the day. It breaks my heart as if I had just STARTED in Ethiopia, Amara would be home now, making a mess all over my house and discovering her first Canadian Spring. But, that is not the case and we have only had our file in E for 3 months and 3 weeks. The expected wait for a referral at this time is 11+ months and so that brings us to at least Christmas. But, as I have experienced all throughout this journey, things can change daily - and sometimes it can change for the better. So, this is where we're at at this moment.

I can't believe almost 4 months has passed. Actually, although not without disappointment, it has been quite easy for both Darryl and I up until this point. And since we have been SSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO busy, our minds have been distracted and each day when we lay down at night, we say, another day gone. We can't get FURTHER away from the end of this journey, can we?

We have really been keeping ourselves busy. We have remortgaged our house and because Darryl works for himself, that was no small feat! It took a lot of time and paperwork but because the interest rates are so low we saved A LOT of money a month. Darryl is CRAZY busy doing renovations and I, as a result, am crazy with quotes and estimates and contracts and advertising, etc.

Darryl busy = Andrea busy.

Plus, we opened the cottage last weekend and upon arrival we discovered that the fridge that has been there since 1988 had broken and it was time to buy a new one. I am taking the 3rd of 6 courses in college I need to be certified in my field. I have been working TONNES of overtime at work. It seems that every one of my friends are pregnant, just had a baby, are getting married so going to showers, trying on bride's maid dresses and throwing showers and visiting new babies takes up a lot of my day.

NONE of this I am complaining about because I love the days to pass quickly. One thing that I have done for myself is joined a Meditation for Beginners class and am LOVING IT. It helps me tremendously.

Thanks for keeping up with us!
We are getting there people.
Slowly but, hopefullysurely, we're gettin' there!
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