Two

Two months. Its been just two months since our dossier (paperwork) flew to our child's homeland of Ethiopia. That was the day, we officially knew we were on the list. Actually, however, its been longer than that. It has been 12 weeks since we turned our paperwork into our local Bethany office. 12 weeks not having any papers, seals, signatures or other requirements to work on. It felt like it took forever to get to one month on the wait list. This past month- getting to 2, has actually went by more quickly. School and work and life is super busy right now. Which to a certain extent is a good thing...makes the waiting go more quickly.

So, its been 2 months...how much longer until you get a referral? This is starting to be a common question. So, here's the short version of our best guess. Referrals for our age range, 0-12 months have been around 6 months recently. Therefore, we are telling people that we may know something in January or February. Realizing, it could be longer however. We try to remind everyone though that this is just guess-imate and nothing else. We are very appreciative that Bethany intentionally matches the children to the family therefore making the child's needs the priority when selecting the family.

Technically, we could get that phone call anyday but- we know and believe that God will send that phone call at just the right time, when He has prepared just the right child for us. I've got to admit though...we're praying hard that that phone call comes much sooner than later!