Espero

In Spanish, the words "hope" and "wait" are the same -- Espero.

We have been hoping and waiting for a very long time! It's actually coming up on 5 years since we started this crazy journey to a family.

5 years.

So much has changed in 5 years, yet almost nothing has changed. Even with this new adoption program I still kinda feel like I'm just going through the motions. I don't know that I ever really felt like it was going to really happen. I've become quite the skeptic over the last few years. I want to go back to being super hopeful and giddy with excitement ... circa 2008.

This weekend I had a glimpse of that hopefulness and giddiness. In what seems like record time for the Department of Homeland Security, we received our I-800A approval in the mail!!

It is becoming real. We are really doing this! This was the last documentation that we needed in order to submit our dossier to Ecuador. This week I'll go to Madison to get everything apostilled and send it to my agency.

Hope. Espero

Then we wait for travel dates. Espero