Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Holy Smokes!! We are getting close!!

WOW!! I just got off the phone with Ashley at CHI and she said we are getting very close to "dossier completeness"!!! I new this technically, but to hear it from her made it all seem so real!! Fingers crossed it will be on its way to Ethiopia by the end of September...or a little sooner!!! What a sense of relief. Now, to pay the $4,100 dossier fee.....I have been praying EVERY MINUTE for the $$$ part of this adoption. I know in my soul that God will see to it that we have the money when we need it. The extra shifts at work have been lining up and THAT, my friends, is my answered prayer. (Although, secretly, I must admit I was thinking more along the lines of a random stranger making a donation towards our adoption fund so I don't have to take on the roll of "walking zombie" for the next several weeks!!)
I am emotionally preparing myself for the deafening silence that is about to blanket my house between 8am-4pm daily as Jenna will be starting kindergarten in less than three weeks. We went to Walmart to get all of the kids' school supplies and as they piled all of the composition books, glue sticks and crayons into the cart, I was literally thinking to myself....."don't cry....not hear, in Walmart for Pete's sake!" Thank goodness the slef checkout turned me into a crazy woman and distracted me from my self pity otherwise, I think I would have been in a puddle of tears!!
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