Things are looking up

I was visiting Bethany's web forum today when I saw this message posted:

"I was just on the ET Adoption page - revisiting it to see if anything had changed. As I recall it used to say that the wait time for a referral for children over 2 used to say 6-8 months. Now it says 2 months. "

I both love and hate seeing info like this. I love it because it gives me hope that something related to this adoption might move quickly. I hate it because it gives me that hope, then I'm usually let down.

Here's where we are:

• Our dossier should be in DC right now getting authenticated.
• It should be returned to the home office within the next week.
• Within a week or two after that, the home office should send it to Ethiopia.
• I believe it takes a month or so there to be translated and go through the Ministry of Women's Affairs. (I'm kinda sketchy on this part?)
• Then we wait for a referral.

I don't know how many families with our agency have requested siblings, but everyone who uses the Bethany web forum has requested one child and/or infants. Theoretically we could be very close to the top of the list for siblings ages 0 - 4.