It has been one year and things are changing!

It has been a little over a year now since we sent in our dossier to Ethiopia. We can't believe that it has been that long already. Initially that wait time was going to be 4-6 months. Well, I guess that one has changed.

However, we are at the top of the list now and we really should be hearing something soon. The last few weeks have been incredibly crazy for us. Since things have taken much longer than anticipated, we have to update a bunch of stuff. Primarily our home study has to be updated which means we needed to get fingerprinted again, get medical appointments again, sign more paperwork and have the social worker come out to our house once again and interview us. In this process of updating things though things are changing! We strongly feel like God has been asking us to open up our request.

Currently our request is for 0-12 months either gender. We are opening that way up to potentially include older kids as well and potentially a sibling set. We know! Isn't it crazy just bringing home another baby? Yes. Only God can give us what we are going to need when we are going to need it. We fully rest in Him and have peace in knowing how He loves us.

The funny thing about us now opening up our request is that we are now finally at the top of the list that we have been on for the last year. We truly don't know what God has planned for us. We do know that we want to be open to what He has in store for us. One thing that we have learned through all the miscarriages, London's adoption, and the timing of our other daughters births is that God wants to build our family the way that suites and glorifies Him. We have never really had much of a say in how we build our family. So why start now by limiting our request?

We don't really know what things are going to look like. We don't know where this road is going to really take us. We just know that we need to walk down it and follow our Father's footprints.