Final stage

Still no word that we can travel to pick up the boys (!), but we have at least gotten a couple of updates. Our case was submitted to the Embassy about a week or so ago, and they are reviewing all the documents. In the last week, we have gotten a couple of emails sent from the Embassy to our agency requesting more information to be added to a couple of the documents. They aren't complicated things, thankfully, and hopefully won't take too long to get. Once they get these updated documents, we will get an email from them saying that our case is cleared, and giving us some possible dates to travel.

I know that the boys will be here soon (maybe in July?), but I really do feel like that mom at the end of her pregnancy who is huge and about to bust. Everyone is asking when the baby will be here, and you just don't know. You have pretty much resigned yourself to the fact that he will never come out, and you will probably be pregnant forever. And then it seems like all of the sudden he's here and you can't imagine him ever not being there, being such a huge part of your life.

The boys with letters from us

Darren is going with Alex and Trevor on a father-son camping trip this weekend; I was SO hoping that the boys would be here by now and would be able to go too. And today is Zerihun's birthday, and it's hard not to be with him!

But this encouraged me this morning:

"Do I bring to the moment of birth,

and not give delivery?" says the Lord.

(Isaiah 66:9)