Exciting things are happening.......

Yes, that's right....I said exciting things are happening in our family!  We are getting another little girl!!!!!  After lots of discussion, we have made the decision to adopt an orphan from Ethiopia!!!!  We are so EXCITED!!!!!  We will be getting a little girl between 0-2 years old.  We are expecting the whole process to take 18 months - 2 years.  That is way too long!  We have signed with an agency called Adoption Associates out of Michigan.  We have already had a little agency drama!  I had not idea how difficult it would be to find a good, ethical agency, but not have to wait 3-4 years.  We did it though and I think we area working with a wonderful agency.  We are in the first stage of adoption, the paper chase!  We have already done tons of paperwork, dr. appt., fingerprinting, etc. for our home study.  We will soon be getting a whole new set of paperwork for our dossier.  Hopefully we will have our dossier complete in about 3-4 months and get on the wait list!  They have told us approximately a 10 month wait for a referral after we are on the wait list.  We will then receive a photo as well as any information they have on our daughter.  We will accept the referral and wait 3-5 months for our court date.  We will then travel to Ethiopia for about a week to meet our daughter and appear in court.  We will also have time to travel around the country and hopefully meet our daughters birth family. We will have to wait another period of anywhere from 2-10 weeks for our embassy date.  At that time, we will travel back to Ethiopia a second time to bring our little girl home!!!!  It is going to be a lot of waiting and I am not a patient lady!!!!  I already can't wait!!!!