All of my life I've always been told that my best asset is my patience. Well, we can just throw that out the window right now. Through this process I've learned that I'm NOT patient. I'm very patient with my kids, with my husband, with my friends, with anything really. Jeremy gets frustrated with me. He says, "Nothing ever bothers you." Well I'm bothered.
We started this process on February 24th. My sweet Grandma Foy's birthday. Now we're coming on 5 months and our dossier is nowhere near being ready to send off to Ethiopia. I'm frustrated, anxious, maybe a little annoyed, and upset that we have to send our home study back to the state of Illinois for a second approval. The approval will take another 2-4 weeks and it probably won't be sent off until the end of next week.
In the beginning, I was told that this home study process takes 4-6 months and of course in my head, I was determined to have it done in 4 months. Now we'll be lucky if it's all said and done in 6 months. Boo.
We thought we were good to go on Monday, and then Jennifer from America World sent me an email to let me know that our Social Worker needed to meet with us one more time. We thought we were golden after two meetings with Whitney. Whitney didn't realize that Ethiopia requires 3 meetings. Bummer!!
I put on my brave face and emailed back, "It's OK, God's timing is perfect. It will all work out." I know that He has His hands all over this. I've begged Him to, and I trust that He has heard my prayers. Maybe it's best for me to finish some more of my classes before these new babies come to our family.
So that's where we're at! Waiting. I think that's the name of this game. I'm OK with that. I'm going to enjoy every day of this life that God has given me, knowing that He's got it all under control. Now I just need to be patient...but I sure hope we can still get in under that six month mark. :)
