Postponement with Purpose

As some of you already know, we received news recently that our court date was postponed from Oct. 9th to Oct. 26th. Our original date was set for the first week the federal courts reopened in Addis Ababa after the month long closure in September which happens every year during the rainy season. As you can imagine, there is a lot of other "country business" that sometimes takes precedence & so all of the families who had adoption hearings scheduled last week were delayed. Peace comes, knowing we are not alone in our waiting, and it is the connection to our larger adoptive community that buoys us most right now. We're finding ways to put a positive frame around it-- more time to prepare, to save a little more money for my time off work... Last week, Amanda wrote a post about our adoption on her blog, along with a link to mine...and some new friendships were born! Thanks to Amanda, a few days later I received a comment here from Sarah & Jeremy, a couple from Minnesota who are adopting another sibling group of three from the same orphanage in Nazret, Ethiopia as our kids. Our youngest girls are the same age & based on photos of the kids playing together, it looks like they might be friends. A second comment came from Ashley (thanks to Sarah) just a few days ago-- Ashley and her family live in Austin, Texas and are also waiting to bring home a young boy from Nazret. It turns out that we have the same court date. We hope to travel at the same time, all of us together, and help our kids stay in touch once we're home. Who knows? With skype and summer roadtrips, this could be the beginning of something extraordinarily meaningful and FUN. It seems that something bigger than all of us is at play, details lining up just so, for the brightest future of our little ones...we're just learning to be with the beauty that comes, even in the waiting. So, if there are any more CHSFS Nazret families out there, we'd love to hear from you too!