As you all probably know we were in the process of adopting from China. Our LID is 3/27/06 (for those of you who understand that lingo). However, the wait seems to grow a month every month. It appears that if we waited for a little girl from China we would probably be getting her sometime in 2010! That is a terribly long time...and Lance is not getting any younger :).
So, we decided today that we would pursue another country. We decided on Ethiopia because of my relationship with this country as a child. The story is: when I was a little girl and my mother was a single mother who worked 2-3 jobs to keep us afloat...instead of buying a ton of gifts, that we could not afford, for Christmas; we would donate money "to the starving children in Ethiopia". I remember these babies with big bellies on the brochure. I think it was Save the Children organization.
Anyway, I also have this recurrent dream, that I was in a lush tropical area, with a bone in my nose, taking care of black babies with big bellies. There was always a woman handing me her baby. I thought for a long time that this dream meant that I needed to go to this mystery place and help out; that maybe I was their medicine woman. Maybe, but maybe not?
So, now I am off to researching out agencies that will let us have a concurrent adoption open with China. I am beginning to understand, this is hard to come by.
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