Waiting for that Magical Day!
Usually you get your embassy date assigned 2-5 days after passing court. Well nothing about our adoption has been normal, so of course that doesn’t happen! After one week and one day, I just couldn’t wait any longer. I called our agency. Now, unfortunately, our caseworker is out of town for the week. Her replacement emailed me today saying we might have a January 5th embassy date, but that is not confirmed yet…so don’t buy plane tickets. JANUARY 5th…WHAT?!?!? I was blindsided and didn’t even know that was an option! We were pushing for an 8th date and knew that wasn’t too likely, but were told we’d for sure get the 22nd and now this! Needless to say I was mad and sad at the same time. Mad that it would take almost 8 weeks from our court date to getting the boys, when it’s supposed to take 4-6 and used to only take 2-4. I just don’t get it.
I had two beautiful friends not pass court within the last week as well and I commiserate with them and wish I could be there to hug them. I have been in their shoes and it’s not a fun place to be. So many things in the adoption world don’t make sense! There are so many questions, yet we’re likely to never have them answered.
We should find out tomorrow or in the next couple days what our official embassy date will be. I didn’t go down without a fight, boys! I called and told them our situation and what we were told. The replacement was going to contact their staff in Ethiopia and see what she could do and get back to me. Our luck is…we’ll have to wait and travel the first week in January.
In all these cases for my dear friends and for our situation, my heart aches most for the kids there waiting for us! Whether they are old enough to know it or not, it’s just not right that they have to wait extra weeks, months, years for ridiculous reasons!
Having our court date bumped was tough, not passing the next date was very tough, but this is the worst! We are officially Elijah Asebe and Jonah Tesfaye’s parents and we cannot go and get them and bring them home! That is an awful feeling that you just can’t understand until you’ve been there. It’s unbelievable to me that they have to wait 3 extra months just to pass court and come home.
We will continue to pray for you daily, our beautiful sons! Until that magical day when we meet for the first time, please know we love you, we think about you all the time, and we can’t wait to bring you home to your forever family! Dreaming about you until then. -Mommy
