"decision made"

check out that title!!!!!!  wow...does that ever feel amazing to type those words...after 2.5 years, the last hurdle has been beaten, in super speedy fashion even.    the visa is issued and will leave in the infamous "pouch" tomorrow, on its way back to Ethiopia.  that's ten days for our visa that we were ready to wait five months for!!!  we feel so blessed to have the final stretch miraculously shortened, just at a time when the wait was getting really boring. :)  our agency expects it will arrive Friday at the Embassy, be opened Monday, and hopefully we receive clearance to travel and bring AJ home that same day.  we learned of this last Friday, yet wanted to speak with our agency before going too far into the flight preparations. since then we've been scrambling to find suitable flights for next Monday or Tuesday.  we may all be together this Christmas after all....So thankful and overwhelmed~ this is such an answer to prayer....
hopefully we'll firm up the exact flight tomorrow, with the realization that if the visa does not make it into the pouch for whatever reason we may need to postpone our flight for a later date, like right after Christmas instead.  risky and scary, but it looks like the surest way of securing a pre-Christmas flight.  please pray the visa leaves the High Commission tomorrow and that we hear word of its arrival Monday.  we'll keep you posted!  see you soon AJ!!!!