Family News!!

There will be a 5th child in our future!!!  We don't know when or who, but our part is all finished with paperwork & meetings!

We've been a little hesitant to share news about our adoption plans with people.  There's probably a few reasons for that, not all of which are necessarily valid...  Mostly it's because of a few things:
1. the apparent insanity of our lives right now with 4 kids & building a house while working our regular jobs
2. the fact that we know people who are still waiting for a child via adoption and here we are jumping back in for another while they are still waiting
3. there are some range of acceptance details that are a bit different this time around

At any rate, all of our paperwork is with our agency and ready for them to do whatever they want with it.  For those of you who know our story, we plan on working with the same agency & country as with adopting Dude.  That is, we'll be adopting from the same country when the country opens up again after all of the law/policy/procedure changes they are trying to implement....

I'll share more details in the days ahead!

Later!
I.B.