Friends going over to meet our boys...

I am excited that our friends, who are adopting 3 children from Ethiopian, are going to Addis on Monday. This trip of theirs is the next best thing to me going. They will be at both ophanages where our boys are located. They will have my video camera I just UPS'd to them. They will get to know the boys, live and in-person. They will get to hug them for us. They will take pictures and bring them pictures of our family. The one very far away from Addis, "O", who speaks great English, will be told of our family and where he will be living and going to school. He will know that two of his fellow orphanage mates will be very close to him.

We will have them experience the personalities of our boys. Their feet will be measured so we can bring proper fitting shoes with us when we pick them up. Hopefully we will know what size clothes they wear, rather than guessing.

This family is flying out Monday, Jan 25th and getting back on Tuesday, Feb 2nd. They live in Wausau so I am thinking that her parents will bring us back pictures and our video camera with the much anticipated footage. Oh, I can not wait!!! The mom and dad (grandma and grandpa of the 3 ET children)....have a huge interest in all this because they are the ones bringing "O's" two orphanage mates (M&N) here, to live near "O". They will be just as anxious to get their pictures and also meet their grandchildren....so I will give the best report I can when they are back .

Until then...we have a biometrics appoint on Monday...then we get our I-600a processed and will receive our much needed I-171H. We can't pick up our boys without that!

Where We Are At

"T's" paperwork is in hand. "O" has been at the orphanage a long time and needs to have his paperwork redone. It will take a few weeks. Then we go to court. We will get an embassy appointment after we get our 171H. If we get fingerprints on January 25th, we might have our 171H by the end of February. Embassy appoint should be end of March. We pick the boys up before their embassy appointment because we all need to be at that appointment.

We have friends traveling to both the orphanages our boys are at the last week of January. We will get videos and pictures of those visits. I made photo albums for both boys that will get delivered to them. They will be told about us and "O" will learn that two of his friends will be coming to a family from our church. Those albums included many family pics I took over Christmas.

"T's" mother is very sick. She has a large lump in her breast. The folks at "T's" orphanage have been looking out for her and they would like to get her to Addis to see where her health is at. I was hoping to travel to Ambo to meet her but it isn't looking good. We do have a really nice picture of her that I will get made up for "T" to have and to remember her. She is a very beautiful woman.


"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8,9

I know the timing will all work out.

My Boys and Grandson