Answering some questions....

As the news has started to spread about "The Jansen Expansion", there have been a couple of questions that we've been answering a lot...

Are you getting a baby? No, we are not. Our preference is a child between the ages of 4 and 6 years old.

Will it be a boy or a girl? We don't know. We decided that we aren't going to pick. When we had our biological children, we didn't know what they were, and we'll go the same route this time. When the agency makes the referral to us, we believe that is the child that God has chosen to be in our forever family - whether it be a boy or a girl.

How long does the process take? 10-18 months seems to be about "normal" from what we've heard.....but we've also been told to plan on the unexpected and to just not plan on anything. So - the real answer probably is - who knows? (that would give you insight on how to pray - we like to be planners with a date, time and schedule - this waiting game may prove difficult).

Currently, we have been assigned a case worker with an adoption agency here in Columbus, who will do our home study - which, we hope, will deem us approved to be an adoptive family. :-) After the home study, and coming up with the formal application fees we still need, we will begin the more formal process with Adoption Associates (see website below), and start preparing our Dossier for submission to Ethiopia.

The journey continues.....