How could I forget??

During my last post, I talked about what we've been up to but I forgot to mention the BIGGEST thing we've been up to... completing our Dossier! It is FINISHED:) wooohooo! The dossier is a huge compilation of paperwork needed for our adoption. We could not be placed on the waiting list until it was complete. We began working on it at the end of October and would've been finished weeks earlier but our paperwork we were waiting on from the CIS was lost in the mail! So it took about 4 months for us to complete it which is fairly quick compared to most. The expected wait time is approx 12 months. Which means we should have a referral in about 12 months and then travel to Ethiopia a few months later. I am "hoping" it won't take so long because we should be around 60th on the waiting list and there were a total of 20 babies referred in Feb so if we have a couple more really good months like that, it's possible for us to get a referral sooner. One can always hope:).