Well, we still are not submitted for a court date yet. There was already a little snafoo that needs to be remedied before that happens. Okay. Fine. Deep breaths. I spend too much time online reading other people's blogs. Specifically Ethiopian adoption blogs. I find their referral date, then I find their court date. And THEN I add up the days and try to do the same formula with our referral date, to try to find a possible court date for us. It is a little form of personal torture that I cannot stop! I keep coming back to the same result. We could possibly travel to Ethiopia next month to meet and adopt Zoey Faith. Or we quite possibly will not get a court date until early October. And yet I still keep trying to control something, figure something out for myself.
The amazing thing about all of this is that God already knows our court date, he is already there! And yet he is here with us now, holding us as we wait with bated breath to see if we may be....MAYBE traveling.....
Ethiopia, Here we come!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Racing the Clock
This was a huge week for us. We got everything needed from both ends so that we could submit for our court date! WOOHOO!!!! This is a huge deal as we are racing the clock to get a court date before the Ethiopian rainy season starts. Ethiopian courts shut down for the rainy season and no cases are heard during the months of August and September. It could literally go either way for us right now. It has me in a bit of a panic at this point. FERVENT prayers are being lifted up that we will get a court date before August 6th, which we are told is the beginning of the court recess.
Two months doesn't sound like that long in certain respects. Two months until Jake goes to middle school orientation. WHAT!?!? That will come up quickly, I am sure. Two months until I put my little boy on the bus every day after lunch and let him go be a kindergartener all afternoon. That makes my heart ache with its nearness. But two months will absolutely drag if we need to wait until early October to go adopt Zoey. D.R.A.G. Those two months will become the most meaningless months ever because they seem completely unnecessary to me. At this point of the process there is nothing more Matt and I can do to speed this along. We can only wait for our court date and pray. AND pray.
We have said from the get go that we know that God is in charge of this adoption. That he had our daughter chosen to be ours. That he had knit her together in her mother's womb to be our child forever. Now that we have pictures of her and some information, it has made all the waiting okay. Because it was all for HER. Zoey Faith. Our second daughter, our fifth child. Matt and I look at her pictures all the time. We smile, we tear up, we notice something new in her precious face that we had not noticed before. She is already a gift and a blessing to us and we haven't even met her yet!
SO, all this to say that we are praying specific prayers to travel to Ethiopia before the court recess to meet and adopt Zoey Faith and get to bring her home in early September. Praying that prayer with faith that God could totally make this happen. But also having faith in him that if we do not make it to Ethiopia in July, that God has his purposes even if they are hidden from us.
Join us in our prayers, won't you?
Two months doesn't sound like that long in certain respects. Two months until Jake goes to middle school orientation. WHAT!?!? That will come up quickly, I am sure. Two months until I put my little boy on the bus every day after lunch and let him go be a kindergartener all afternoon. That makes my heart ache with its nearness. But two months will absolutely drag if we need to wait until early October to go adopt Zoey. D.R.A.G. Those two months will become the most meaningless months ever because they seem completely unnecessary to me. At this point of the process there is nothing more Matt and I can do to speed this along. We can only wait for our court date and pray. AND pray.
We have said from the get go that we know that God is in charge of this adoption. That he had our daughter chosen to be ours. That he had knit her together in her mother's womb to be our child forever. Now that we have pictures of her and some information, it has made all the waiting okay. Because it was all for HER. Zoey Faith. Our second daughter, our fifth child. Matt and I look at her pictures all the time. We smile, we tear up, we notice something new in her precious face that we had not noticed before. She is already a gift and a blessing to us and we haven't even met her yet!
SO, all this to say that we are praying specific prayers to travel to Ethiopia before the court recess to meet and adopt Zoey Faith and get to bring her home in early September. Praying that prayer with faith that God could totally make this happen. But also having faith in him that if we do not make it to Ethiopia in July, that God has his purposes even if they are hidden from us.
Join us in our prayers, won't you?
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Our First Blog Post!
This first blog post will be a quick one to introduce you to us. We are Matt and Carissa VanDyke. We live in Homer Glen, Illinois. We have four kids...Jake (10), Luke (8), Jonah (5) and Lily (2). We have been married for 13 years and we are starting this blog to document our adoption journey from referral on.
We are adopting our next child from Ethiopia. We got our referral last week on June 1st. Our daughter is Zoey Faith and her first birthday is Saturday, June 12th. We are so excited we can hardly stand it! Hopefully this blog will be a fun way for us to share our process.
Stay tuned for more to come....
We are adopting our next child from Ethiopia. We got our referral last week on June 1st. Our daughter is Zoey Faith and her first birthday is Saturday, June 12th. We are so excited we can hardly stand it! Hopefully this blog will be a fun way for us to share our process.
Stay tuned for more to come....
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