Doesn't this picture look like you could fit one more sibling on the chair :)What a crazy couple of weeks! While attending world premieres and going on free trips to Hawaii was amazing, it's far from our every day lives.
While we were having these wonderful vacations the downside is that not a single adoption referral has come in. The last I heard from our adoption contact at the end of January is that we are number 25 on the list and there haven't been any referrals since then so if you do the math... yep, still 25. A referral means that one of the six orphanages that our agency works with has a child who has gone through the process, either through family relinquishment or abandonment, to be eligible for international adoption. Then our agency consults their list of waiting families to determine who is next in line with a request that matches the child's gender and age. We have requested a baby girl under 12 months old and apparently half of the families in front of us have the same request. It's possible we could get to number 1 on the list and be there for a long time as referrals for older children, boys and sibling groups pass us by. Or we could get a referral when we are number 10 (not likely) if the 9 families in front of us aren't requesting an infant girl. So basically, being number 25 on the list doesn't tell us all that much. In August there were 2 referrals for the entire month and in November there were 25. While we feel like we have been waiting a long time we also recognize that this is just the very beginning of the journey. In the meantime the boys keep us busy and we continue to answer their questions about when we will be bringing their baby sister home.
No comments:
Post a Comment