Where did 2009 go?

It's crazy to think that it's been almost a year since we "officially" started the adoption process for our second child. Where does the time go? When we first started thinking about another adoption, the decisions did not come easily... should we look at domestic or another international adoption? We ultimately decided on international but then needed to choose a country. We always felt drawn to Colombia but the wait was 3 + years... could we handle being in-process for that long? And what about the required 3-6 weeks we would need to be in-country? How would we manage that with Joey... and taking time off from our jobs... and the expenses that go along with an extended in-country stay? We had so many decisions to make and I have to say, the decisions are so much harder the second time around. But we thought about it alot and had many, many discussions... and prayed for guidance and we just knew that Colombia was where we needed to go. And now it seems that everything is starting to fall into place. First we were given the opportunity to adopt from a private orphanage which will give us a shorter wait time than adopting from the government program and of all of the places our dossier could go, it ended up in Medellin, which is the region with the shortest average in-country stay. So now we begin a new year with much anticipation of the joys another child will bring to our family...