The Coveted MOWA Letter

As many of you have heard by now, we received word on March 23^rd that our MOWA letter had been received!  This means that we are officially court-approved…which means that we are officially Eden’s parents!  Many of you prayed specifically for our MOWA letter to arrive quickly, and we thank you SO much for lifting us up in prayer!

What now?  Now we just wait for the U.S. Embassy to receive our paperwork and assign an appointment date to us.  This could take anywhere up to 8 weeks, but we are obviously praying for a short turnaround time!  In talking to some other families from our agency, many of them only had to wait 4 weeks, so that gives us hope that we could have an appointment in mid- to late-April.

Once we receive our appointment date, we get to book our flight back to Ethiopia!  The day after we arrive in Addis, we get to go pick Eden up from Hannah’s Hope and bring her back to our hotel with us!  Besides attending our Embassy appointment on one of the days, we’ll just hang out in the hotel or go play at Hannah’s Hope until our return flight home.

We can’t wait until our family of 3 is together forever!