Finally things are moving again...

Well, after nearly two months of very little info coming out of our agency they updated their blog to say that they got three referrals last week. Now the longest families that have been waiting have been waiting since Sept. 2006. Based on info our social worker gave us last fall I think that this has to mean that we are in the top ten finally! Last fall our social worker told us that there were five families in September and around three in July 2007, with no one in the months between as our agency wasn't accepting applications at that point. So, we are feeling a bit relieved now. Hopefully there will be a few more referrals still to come in this month. If so, then I am hoping that we'll get "the call" within the next couple of months. We really thought that we would be closer by now, but if we have learned one thing through this process it is that we are not in control! We are nearing 17 months since we started this journey and it is wearing thin at this point. We just want our referral!!!!! Neither of us has felt particularly patient recently. I think a lot of it has to do with having cabin fever with the yucky weather. The rest of it is just frustration with how long it is taking us to have the two children we had hoped to have for many years now. We know we are getting closer, but that isn't making it any easier to wait...at least not at the moment.

Jack told me on the way home from the museum yesterday that he only wants a little girl and not a little boy brother. He wants a little girl and he is sticking to the name Anna as is first choice. I keep asking him what he will call his new baby and he always says Anna. I tried to explain that we don't have any say in what we get and that we'll be happy with a girl or a boy. He then screamed, "No, I definitely don't want a boy!"