Biggest rejoicing day yet!!!!

"Oh my dear!" As my nephew would say! Today has been so crazy! We were waiting to hear if we could use the old license from Lutheran Social Services in order to get our dossier sent out tomorrow.... I called Radu (our placement agency contact person) to see if we could, and he said no. They actually needed both the expired license AND the new one. He then asked me if I could get our dossier to him before the end of the week, as he was leaving for Ethiopia and wanted to start getting it processed. I was bummed to tell him that I didn't think it would be possible.

I got off the phone and called our social worker right away to see if by some miracle the license had come. She answered and asked if I had received her emails. I said no, and she said "well I sent you one this morning letting you know that the license hasn't come, but then I sent you one a few minutes ago saying that we just got it!!!" You can imagine my joy... So I hung up with her and called Radu back. I told him we'd over night it Tuesday after we get the last few things authenticated, and he would have it Wednesday (Lord willing). I asked if that would be enough time to get things started before he left. His response? "Oh ya, that's not really what I'm concerned about. It needs to go to the Oregon senate first which takes a few days, but I really want it in order to take photocopies of the dossier with me to Ethiopia." Translation: identify a child for us while he's there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wanted to scream and cry and who knows what else. But I played it cool and then burst into tears as soon as I got of the phone! WOW!

I spoke with my social worker about it later today and she said that even if they do match a child to us next week (NEXT WEEK!!!!) we still may not hear or know anything until all our paperwork has jumped through the hoops and it's an official referral. But still, wow! PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please Pray:
-Tomorrow goes smoothly for Aaron
-Our paperwork gets to Oregon on Wednesday
-God's hand is in Radu's trip next week and the possible match!
-Our paperwork goes through OR, DC, and Ethiopian embassy quickly and smoothly