New developments

Wow - the past 48 hours have flown by. It looks like Todd will be able to go with me for about half the trip and we will take our daughter Lydia Grace,9, as well so she can meet her sister (who again, won't be able to travel home with us at this time).

We will probably be leaving Sunday, November 29th - Todd will stay about a week and then my mother or mother-in-law will come over and stay with me the remaining time. We have to stay a bit longer in the country because we have a waiver that has to be approved before our son can travel. I don't know when I will travel home but hopefully the week before Christmas.

There is a slight chance this won't all go through - if we've messed up the paperwork in some way, but if that's all a go - we're on our way. We found out Thursday that we needed to fed-ex our paperwork to Ethiopia because it needed to be there 2 weeks before the embassy date which is Wednesday December 2, 2009. So, that was a bit stressful for me. But we got it done, now just hope we did it correctly.

We had an Africa fellowship night with friends from our with Ghanaian, Kenyan, Ethiopian, and South African cuisine. Well, actually we had semi-Ethiopian food because I tried to make it and was so distracted by all that was going on that I didn't cook it correctly, but it ended up being rather mild, which is not typical and which, was a bit better for the kids.

One of our new friends has an 18-month old son (dad is Kenyan, mom is American). I took such pleasure watching him as he reminds me of Adam! Fun to see what my son is doing right now - or probably doing since he is 16-17 months.

Okay, thanks for following - I'll try to post updates as I remember.