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Link

Our agency just posted this link, which I'll also put in the links' section off to the right. Have fun exploring a part of the world that Rob and I are about to enter!

At 2 months: tapas

So, as of today, we've waited two months for our child from Ethiopia. Depending on how you consider it, two months has been a short and a long time. Sigh. A family, that was matched recently with its son, waited just over two months: This sounds good. But when you consider when we submitted our first dossier to Albania, we've now waited a year. God knows.

In other news, my very thoughtful cousin recently sent me a surprise package which included a book... my new favorite, which is perfect for our situation. It's called A Mother for Choco, by Keiko Kasza. Read it!

And yesterday, some friends of ours gave me a list of Bible verses having to do with children and our hopes for them as Christians. I have been wanting a relatively short list, all put together in one place. (Yes, the Bible itself is one such place, I know! Just not so 'relatively short.') Now we have one.

And, ay! I almost forgot: Yesterday was New Year's Day in Ethiopia. 10 September. It's now the year 2001 over there. Hm... is there anything that I'd like to redo from the year 2001 that I can take care of while I'm over there? I'll be thinking about that!

So, a little bit of everything for today.

Please pray. Please pray that our child and his/her birthparents have food and a place to stay and someone to love them. Please pray that the birthparents have peace about the decisions that they're making. Please pray for the birthparents' and our child's salvation. Please pray that the adoption is all said and done by the end of December of this year, so that we don't have to redo all of our immigration work, which expires in January. Gracias.

Referrals!

No, not ours, but still very exciting! Four baby boys were matched with their families today. (The families waited 3, 4, and 5 months. I know nothing about the fourth family.) Another family got its call to travel (next week) to pick up their 3-month old daughter and two families will return home with their children tomorrow. God willing, we will be matched with our child soon. And, thank God for those families already being united.

Rob took one (or four) for Team Stensberg today

As you can see, Roberto got his shots to go to Africa today... complete with kid-friendly bandages and a WHO card to prove it. He wasn't expecting to get them all, but the travel nurse was ready with the "cocktails." Mm, yummy. He'll only have to go back for the seconds and third of the Hep-series.

Thanks to my time in Peace Corps, I'll only have to get the Yellow Fever... which I'll wait till the last day to get, no doubts about that. Shoo.

Sling run 3

Well, the sling officially works, in all of its positions. My dear friend, C., was over today with her children, including her newborn. After watching a video on how to "load" the child, we were able to slip Baby right in. I wore her all around, even through the back "yardin." How fun! Now my goal is to make a sling for C. so she too can be hands-free.

Olympics

Ethiopians finished first and second in the 10,000 meter race. Go Ethiopia! Here is the article.