Greatly Exaggerated

The rumors of this blog's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

I've just been a little busy with life.  Being a husband (depending on who you ask - more on this later), being a father, being a pediatrician.  Working on developing more of an online presence for our practice.  Learning how to put up drywall.  Completing adoption paperwork (though my wife really gets the credit for that) and adoption education.  Just a few things.

In the course of completing our adoption dossier documents we had to obtain a newly issued copy of our marriage license.  The appropriate request was made to the state vital records office and, just like that (well, actually two months later), we received...a divorce verification.  Dated the same day that we got married.  Although we probably would be married by common law by now (16 years later), we thought it would be a good idea to have our state confirm that we are, in fact, actually married.  My diligent and lovely wife worked hard to contact an actual person in the state government and we do now have confirmation that we are married and that our children are not illegitimate.

We are now waiting on approval from US Customs & Immigration so that we can send our dossier to Ethiopia.  We are very excited to be that much closer to welcoming our new child into our family.  Anyone out there speak Amharic?