November 20th. Your siblings came to stay, it's deer season. Grandpa and Uncle Seth are at the Deer Camp. No one has gotten a deer yet. Your mom told me that the trip has been pushed back again, your not at the orphanage yet. G is discouraged, we all are but maybe it will be for the best, maybe sometime over summer vacation after Seth's wedding. I bought you a Christmas present, I guess it will have to wait too. I was hoping to go sooner that later. We are going to bag groceries for tips, that should be interesting. I made curtains for your room. They look great. I have material left over and plan on making a wall hanging for your room, if I can figure out how to make it work. I just need to buy a new sewing machine. The old one quit when I finished up your curtains.
WWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Your mom and Sam came to school. I was very confused. "What's wrong." "Your gonna be a grandma again." They got the referral and I got flowers. It was planned that Grandpa Speed and I would come up after work so that they could open the email together. Of course Grandpa was slow. I think your mom called twice to see where we were. We celebrated with a glass of wine and Pizza. We went to Walmart to get pictures made. What a determined tiny little girl. Stretching and growing even though people didn't think you would make it. The day that Laural got hurt was the day you were born. 9/10/09 Your folks were in the hospital on one side of the world while you were coming into the world on the other.
Dec. 22nd- We bagged groceries at HyVee. 5 hours of hard work for $229. Laural manned the donation table with Dalton Groeper. Randy, G, B and I bagged groceries. One order was $800. Amazing. Several people asked about where we got the bag that held the donation container. The Dollar Tree. Sometime in here G and B sent your medical records to a specialist. He wasn't very positive and said we would be luck to bring you home. More prayers. We are coming to get you, WE ARE WE ARE WE ARE!!!!!!!!!
Dec. 25th - We got new pictures for Christmas, you are getting to be a little butterball. How wonderful. Short and Cute that's my motto.
New Years Eve your family came over to celebrate. G and B were fasting till evening. Praying for a good outcome at court. Midnight our time would be 9:00am your time, prayers went up all over for the judge to ok your adoption.
New Year Day- We went up to your house. Your mom was bouncing off the wall. She was going crazy for the call to come in. I figured we would just be disappointed again. 5:30pm THE CALL CAME. YOU ARE REALLY OURS, 100% THE ADOPTION WAS FINAL. We had wine again and pizza. The wine bottles are on the china closet as mementos of the occasions.
Jan. 9th I packed the 2nd suitcase for the orphanage.
Jan 10th The congregation prayed over the suitcases of donations at church. You are 4 months old. After church I repacked the suitcases to make them more even and I packed what I would probably take.
The school had a jeans week and all the money that was donated will go to Ethiopia with us for the orphanages. $1 US dollar is worth 13 Birr (their money) so that money will go a lot farther there. We can purchase things that are too heavy to pack like formula.
Jan 11th- Went to town to get last minute things and comfort food, oatmeal, mac and cheese, candy bars, gum, brown sugar and hard candy among other things. Still not sure about our departure date..
Jan 18th- The congregation laid hands on us and prayed for us. I certainly felt better about the whole trip afterwards.
Jan 21st Well another day has gone by and not travel plans again. Your mom's kind of sad. Maybe we will find out news on Monday.
Jan 23rd- We went to town to look for seeds. In the fall Caleb (after watching a movie about the Ethiopian Famine) told his mom that maybe we should take a package of seeds, so the people would have food. A few minutes later he came back to say maybe we should take 2 so they wouldn't fight over it. G bought 12 packages, squash, pumpkin and beans. She plans on taking pictures of Caleb with the seeds and pictures of the person we give them too accepting the seeds. How sweet can a 6 years old be?
Jan 24th- Everyone at church wanted to know- WHY DIDN'T YOU LEAVE YESTERDAY?
Paper Work, Government Regulations, ETC. I am sooooo tired of the date being pushed back.
Finally we are going. Feb. 6th, 10:20am from the Peoria Airport.
Gretchen called on Friday the 5th, the Ethiopian Air Flight was canceled because of bad weather. We wouldn't get to go out until Sunday. No LaLaBella (sp) Trip. G and B were really looking forward to this. But we still will get to go to Awasa. They won't reschedule any of the other flights so we still have to fly out of Peoria and wait at DC. At least we get to go. Yeah
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