Court Date....Finally.

So yesterday I am sitting at my desk as I realize yet another day has passed with no news of a court date.  They usually get it first thing in the morning since Ethiopia is 7 hours ahead of us.  Seriously, I felt like I was going to lose it.  It would be one thing if they had told us, "Hey, it's going to be a month before we know a court date."  If they had said that, it would've sucked, but we wouldn't be disappointed and hurting every weekday morning when they told us there was no court date yet.  Unfortunately, our agency and our staff in Ethiopia had no way of knowing it would take this long for our paperwork to be processed and a court date set.  So yesterday I literally had a begging session with God, banging my fist against the wall, "God please please please please.  God please please please.  I can't take any more of this.  I need something.  Anything."  I finally laid down on the couch around 11am to try and sleep an hour of the day away without having to think about this lousy date.  Well, at 11:35am, I got a call from our agency.  She had a court date!  I couldn't believe it.  Well, it was bittersweet when she shared the news, because we were assigned a court date of January 18th.  Yeah.  About 2 months later than what we were hoping for.  I cried.  I couldn't believe we would have to wait that long to be with our babies.  I couldn't believe it.  But at the same time, I was truly happy to have an actual court date.  I called Wes, and as I cried, he was Mr. Positive, and told me all the great things that would come as a result of us waiting 2 more months.  I secretly think Kari Gibson over at mycrazyadoption.com has been praying we would get a late court date...when I told her about the referral of our twins 2 months ago, she said, "Oh Nina!  Wouldn't it be amazing if you were in Ethiopia at the same time as we're there on our missions trip?!"  I said, "Kari, I better NOT be in Ethiopia then because that means it's going to be a LONG time until we get to see our babies!"  Again, who knows what God has in store?  ;)  Oh, and for those of you who know about Kari's big trip to Ethiopia, you know it's in the end of February, so you might be doing the math, wondering how we are going to be there at the same time if our court date is a month earlier....yeah....I failed to mention that Wes and I have decided to stay in Ethiopia from our court to embassy date!  So that means we could be there from 4-8 weeks!  Through an amazing set of circumstances, God has made a way for us to do this practically and financially.  So needless to say, we are kind of crazy excited about getting to spend so much time in Addis Ababa.  It's going to be amazing!

Well, I will leave you with yet another "Musings from the car with Wes and Nina" segment.  I know you missed seeing our awesome videos, so here you go....