Thursday morning (9:30pm Wednesday our time) was our scheduled birth mom interview with the US Embassy in Ethiopia. We had been told that the orphanage could not find the birth mom earlier this week. There was some thought that she was afraid someone might make her take the baby back and she was fearful of this appointment.
We received an email through the night letting us know that she did not come to the interview. So from here.....our power of attorney will request another interview time and date and they will continue to try and find her. If she cannot be located, at some point, they will request that our case turns into a case of abandonment of the child versus relinquishment of the child. I don't know yet what the time frame looks like for that.
We are super disappointed. This interview would have put us with a possible first travel date in December. We are obviously looking at a longer waiting period. I was able to speak with our agency director last night and ask her all the "what ifs". It seems like worst case scenario, it just means that it will take longer.
It's funny how in my previous post, I expanded on God's ways versus our ways. It certainly is easier on the other side of bad news to anticipate God's ways. We don't understand the timing of all of this. We don't know why God would get us to this point the way He has and then there be an issue we didn't plan on. But that is why THIS IS NOT OUR WAY. God is in control of this situation. We know that He loves Endale more than we do and we are head over heals for this boy already! God is the author of Endale's story!!
His ways are good. His ways are true. We will put our hope and trust in Him.
In the mean time, my heart is anxious to get to my baby boy. Please pray for the birth mom, Endale and our family as we wait to see God's handiwork unfold in the rest of Endale's story.
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