Travel

Its been awhile since I posted anything to this blog I just couldn't make myself write about the feelings I had. Seeing pictures of these kids and not having them home with us has been hard to say the least. We got our court date back in October of November 8 and December 8. So we leave in the morning. I WILL GET TO SEE MY BABIES ON SATURDAY!! I know there are some people who aren't as excited as us or me but I don't mind. I love these babies as much as I love the three I gave birth to, the only difference is I carried 3 with me from day one and the 3 in Ethiopia I have carried in my heart for months. Long before I seen their faces I loved them. I can't even think about coming home right now. I will try to update while I'm gone but no promises.

Courtdate

It seems like it took forever and a day to receive our courtdate. I had waited for three months to hear when I would get to see my boys. On October 7 I had to fly to Dallas to meet the boys international DR. We were told for two weeks we should hear tomorrow about courtdates so by this point I was just tired of hearing maybe tomorrow. I got on the plane that morning and was so emotional I couldn't figure out what was going on. People on the plane probably thought I was crazy. Soon as the plane landed I turned my phone on and checked my email. THERE IT WAS...COURTDATE the email said NOV 5 and DE

Getting closer

So there is 8 days till courts open we are so close. We should know that week when our courtdate will be. Our file was opened last week. I'm so sick of people asking when we will bring the boys home it's a reminder that while others have their babies home we have to wait for court to get ours home. Hope once they are home this is something silly I felt but for now it kills me to know the boys are half way round the world.

Knots

Have you ever loved someone so much that when you see there picture it knots your stomach? I don't know if its because my boys are halfway around the world but everytime I turn my phone on and see their picture it just knots my stomach up. I can't wait to see them and to get them home. 32 days until court opens back up these days do not fly by, by any means. I can't do enough to make time fly, these boys are on my mind night and day. I wish they wouldn't close courts for so long it kills the parents waiting.....=(

Garage Sale

Well another weekend of garage sale. I hate doing garage sales... but I will do anything to raise the money to get my boys home. Almost there one more garage sale to go after this one. So far today I made 600.00 not bad for one day but that is nothing compared to my other garage sales. At least I don't need as much as I did when I did the other garage sales. We are getting there baby boys...

Reports

I got another report from a mom who is in Addis at this time. Seems like all good reports so far. Yohannes has a bad cold at this time as does the other children in the orphanage. Just wish we were there to get him already. Menja is a little harder for people to check on for some reason. I have only got two reports on him from families who have been there. Both said the same thing about his orphanage, that they were over crowded. The one mother said I should consider staying until time to bring them home but sometimes that's unreasonable. Though that could all change with one look at how they are doing. This is such a hard time in the process.

Signing papers never felt so good!

So after three long weeks we were finally able to sign papers for Yohannes. YAY!! He is so adorable the kids love his eyes and his mouth. His mouth is continually open in his pictures. The kids say its like his mouth is too heavy. Now on to waiting some 49 days for court to open... not that we are counting or anything. Our boys will be glued to me for awhile especially considering I have been paper pregnant with them for 22 months by the time they are home. WOW that's a long time.