No News is Good News

"Let me catch you up to speed. We know nothing. You are now up to speed."

This is a quote from the movie The Pink Panther. I haven't seen the movie and I don't really have plans to go see it, but I'm thinking of having this quote printed on a tee shirt. At any given moment this will probably be our response to the question "How is the adoption going?"

Actually, that is not entirely true. We recently were told about a website where families adopting from Ethiopia can introduce themselves and identify where they are in the process. This website not only allows us to get to know other families, we can also watch the line in front of us slowly grow smaller. Not every family chooses to identify themselves, so the line is most likely much longer than we are aware of. Currently there are at least 24 families ahead of us waiting to be matched with children. There are at least 12 families that have been matched with children and are waiting for permission to fly.

Another milestone...

The Lehman family has another small reason to celebrate. We just received an e-mail stating that our "dossier" (our official government sealed paper work) was mailed to Ethiopia on January 23. Hopefully, by now the papers have landed on the first of many desks in Ethiopia. The road ahead of us is still very long, but it is always exciting to see some progress.