All details for the kids are being worked out. Looks like Chris will have some time with just the boys, which has never happened for more than an overnight before. I'm excited for them.
Since you can't go far in Western Washington without running into someone with a child from Ethiopia, and often they are from Layla House, I'll be taking pictures from a couple of families who want the orphanage to know how well their kids are doing now. I'm excited about this because I've heard that the staff remember kids years after they've been adopted. I also keep meeting people who are in the process of adopting kids from other orphanages. I wish I could visit them all in Addis! I can only imagine how excruciating the waiting is. I wish I could help ease it with pictures for everyone. But I don't think I'd be able to do what I'm supposed to while I'm there!
We are also having some closure on our foster kids as we are nearing the end of our time with them. I am always hesitant to write anything specific about them since they aren't legally mine, and this is a small community. I am really looking forward to helping with transitioning them to the next chapter in their little lives. This also releases Chris and I emotionally to begin to dream of our future and what may be coming for us.
If you are of the praying sort, my M.C. could use a little extra next week. Every time we talk a
bout me going to Africa he begs me not to go. He says "it will be the same as if you are dead." I am really hoping that he means I won't be an active presence in his daily life, and not some prophetic message about this being my last week on earth! His life will disrupted by my absence. He'll miss pre-school, and be at a daycare he isn't completely fond of. We've only been apart once for more than a night, so I'm praying that his 5 year-old heart will grow through this, and he will miss me so much that he'll be glad when I get back!
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