Court Date!!!!

We finally received notice that we have a court date!! On Saturday we had about an hour between basketball games for the girls and so we ran to the office to check on a few things. I thought I should check my email and when I did there was a general email to the "group" about "Ethiopian Updates". Cheryl (the director at AFAA) usually makes just a lot of generic post about the courts or Ethiopia in general. This particular post was about court dates for 7 children. I quickly read down the list to find tha Kidus and Natinael were second from the bottom. OH MY!!! I ran down the hall to Clint's office and starting banging on the door. (This was the one time I didn't care about interrupting his dictation!!!) "We have a court date!!!!" The tears were were already flowing!!!
So now what......Our court date is scheduled for Feb 5th. This is an appt that is handled by the AFAA representative, Tigist. If we pass court on that date then we will travel 6 weeks later. That should put us traveling around the 17th of March. That is spring break for the girls and would be perfect timing. But......we have to get through courts on the 5th or all will be pushed back until we do.
I had so many emotions just like the day we received our referral. Of course, happiness but a little panic and a little sadness for the families that are still waiting for a court date. My friend Karen in Phoenix, her little boys were NOT on that list among others that have been waiting. Karen has sent all the pictures that we have cherished and also a lot of support along the way. So of course I was sad for her, her family and those little boys, Fikre and Habtamu. (I hope you know what your support has meant and you too will be on that list soon!!!!) Karen did send me one more photo in celebration of our court date. This is good! Thanks Karen!I will leave you all with this........

We love you all, our wonderful family!! We will keep in touch!