Where we are in line...

Each week our agency updates a blog that they run with info about referrals for that week and cultural things of interest. Today the blog was updated to say that they got six more referrals this week. They also went on to say that there are ten 2006 families remaining to be matched. It is unusual for them to give out this much info. If you have been reading our blog you know that we have been anxiously trying to figure out roughly how many people are in front of us since they won't tell anyone. Knowing that there are ten families left from last year waiting, and the fact that we know there are three 2007 families in front of us (thanks to our social worker telling us) we know with almost certainty that we are family number fourteen!

We sort of had our hopes up that we would get a wonderful Christmas referral, but it isn't likely given that we are family fourteen. This month our agency got eleven referrals total and that is as many as they have ever gotten in one month as far as I know. I do hope that we will get a referral no later than February though.

Our agency gets files for children with special needs separate from the regular referrals as well. Families have to ask to be shown these files if they are interested in considering a special needs child. The special needs can vary from very mild and manageable to very severe and life shortening. We have decided to review the mild special needs files. We reviewed one this week for a little boy. Our agency matches these children with families that show interest based on our home study approval dates. We are likely still too far back in line at this point to get matched, but you never know. Often the very mild special needs children are pretty easy to match with a family high up on the list. This little boy is the third special needs child we have requested since August and we obviously have not been match yet.

Jack's new mattresses are being delivered any minute now. His nap today was his last time in his old room/nursery. I (Em) thought I was fine with him moving to his big boy room, but I'm actually really sad that he is getting so big so quickly! Jack, on the other hand, is super excited to sleep in his new bed tonight. He told me today that he has to sleep in his new room so the new baby can use the baby bed.

Thanks for reading our rambling thoughts. It means a lot to us that you are interested enough to follow our adventure.