The Wait Before the Wait.

It has been a while since an adoption update. That is mostly because there is not a ton happening. We are currently waiting for our final piece of paper work for our home study to be complete.

All we are lacking is our FBI background check. So, other than that thing Shelley did when her name was not Shelley, when she was hanging with those people at that place when the deal went down and it happened, it is really just a formality. OK, so she has always been Shelley...she's clean.

From what we can tell we have about 4 more weeks to wait until we get a letter in the mail from the FBI saying, "No record found". At that point we will be able to have the home study approved and have our dossier ready.

I feel like this is just the wait before the wait. Once we send in the last bit of paper work then the real wait begins when we will have nothing to do but wait. Maybe this is just meant to be a test run wait?

We have been tossing around some name ideas. Since we do not have a preference between male or female, we are trying to come up with a name for each. James is pulling for Rumpelstiltskin or Pumpkin.

In the mean time we are referring to our new child as "Bean". That was our sister-in-law's, Christy, idea. Since we were drawn to Ethiopia through coffee, she thought "Bean" would be good. So we are going with "Bean", for now.

We do need for you all to continue to pray that God would prepare us for all that is to come. This is about a real life, not a process. So we want to be as ready as we can be to nurture a new life.

We also need you to continue to pray for the finances. We are in a good spot now. We have what we need for the next big chunk but there is still a bigger amount we will need in the future. Pray for our faith and faithfulness with our own money.

Thanks.

The Hunts.