Waiting...

I have found myself in a little bit of a slump these last couple weeks. I guess the craziness of the hurry up and wait mentality has started to set in. We have been in this crazy footrace of sorts since the beginning of January to complete mounds upon mounds of paperwork to get our adoption application processed. We have done everything there is to do. Dotted every I, crossed every T and now we sit and wait. Our Dossier (our big mound of paperwork) is in Ethiopia, along with many other families that are ahead of us in this process. Although I am thrilled that so many families are adopting ophans from Ethiopia, this waiting game is a whole new set of feelings and emotions that I am not quite sure how to process. I am longing for a little boy that I haven't yet met. This emotion is none like I have ever felt and I can't describe it to anyone and acurately explain how I feel. I am busy, my kiddos and all the craziness of starting back to school has taken care of that, but my brain is continually pulled back to a little boy in Ethiopia. I know we have a long wait ahead...(it could be a year or more) and I am working and praying about finding a balance during this waiting. Hopeful anticiption, but a focus on my precious family that God has call me to attend to right here and now. I know there is a reason for all this waiting and God is preparing me, along with my family for this journey ahead. Just trying be content in all the waiting...