Watch this.

Check out this video about our agency's work in Ethiopia... or, Ee-TYO-pia, as I'm going to start calling G's homeland.

Two weeks away

In two weeks, our agency's Ethiopian director will go to our court date for us, in Addis Ababa. God willing, everything will be present and perfect and we'll pass. Please pray. It is so close! Ah! Fourteen days and counting down...

Rob's tour of south-eastern Wisconsin

Oh man! Rob left before six this morning. He went to the east-side of Milwaukee, he went to Madison for about ten minutes, and then he went to work in Kenosha. All of this for four pieces of paper... yikes! All of this for our son... no sweat! Ah, perspective.

Please pray that FedEx safely, correctly, and timely delivers (Or, subjunctive?) our papers to Michigan. Pray that Michigan sends them (with all of the same adverbs) to D.C. Pray that these same papers get to Ethiopia with enough time so as not to affect negatively our court date. And pray that we pass on the first try. Please pray that G stays healthy and grows stronger each day... not He-man style, but you know...

Karochye (As the Russians say...), pray!

A change of attitude

I called the Wisconsin Secretary of State "stinking" in my last post. I've now had a change of attitude. As I was praying before a dinner of Thai pasta with my sister tonight, the thanks just came out. Thanks, Holy Spirit.

We did, as I had prayed for, receive our papers back in one day. This quickness allows us time to go to Madison to have them re-done. Had it taken longer, we wouldn't have the time to get the fix.

God knows. God is good... "all of the time!"

Yes!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, we had to re-do some of our paperwork in order to work towards bringing G home. We sent it out the other day and it came back in the mail today... all state-sealed. Yes!

However, upon further inspection, the stinking Secretary of State made a huge mistake... four times in a row! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So now, in order to get everything in on time, Rob and/or I will have to go to Madison, in person, on Tuesday, to have it all re-done.

Up, down. Yes, no. Ah, la vie. Oui, j'ai dit "la vie." Qu'est-ce que tu vas dire, dSdlcc?

COURT DATE!!!

Last evening, Rob and I found out that our Ethiopian court date is 12 June! This has happened a LOT more quickly than I had imagined. I was thinking that it would be around the end of July! Wahoo!!!!

Rob came to my work around six last evening, with some papers behind his back and an elated grin on his face. I couldn't even imagine what his secret was. After what seemed like forever, scouring my brain for a clue, he told me the great news.

There are, however, some very important papers in transit. Please pray that these papers get back to us, with no mistakes, early next week. Thank you. Also, please pray that we pass court on the first try and that G stays healthy. Gracias, again.

WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A new friend

The man at our church in charge of international student ministries (?) met an Ethiopian guy recently and e-introduced us. Tonight, we had "the King" over for dinner. We talked about a lot of things, including Ethiopia, for which I was grateful. He also tried to convince me that although Amharigna has 33 x 7 characters in its syllabary, it's actually quite easy to learn. (Okay, I'll try again.) AND, he pronounced our son's "amazing" name a few times so that we could get it just right. We definitely have the first name down, but we have some work to do on the third syllable of his second name. Again, we have time... Thank God for this connection.