Then Finally, 3 families were matched with their children. Yay!
Beginning our adoption journey, we knew it would be a long process. Stepping back, looking at the time frames, I thought we can handle this. Every month or so we would get an update, every quarter a refferal group, and we would get an update on our number. It didn't seem too bad. We would stay busy, enjoy ourselves with our daughter and families. Time would pass and we would soon meet our child from Thailand.
I knew there could be delays with adoption, natural disasters, programs closing, etc. I don't know why the delays with one referral month set me a little cray cray. I wasn't thinking "delays will not happen to us". I knew they could. I didn't start this process thinking that way. Maybe it was because it was our first number change. Maybe it's God giving me a reality check. Whatever the reason, please Lord let me handle it with grace.
Sometimes I feel guilty being excited for our new number, with that number change, means a mother has made the hardest decision of her life, another orphan is in the world. Yet with that, there is a family eagerly awaiting the news of the matching of their child. There will be less orphans in the world with each referral month.
So we are the last (for us). And the first (for most). This will be our last time in double digits!
We are number.........
10
With that number we were informed our agency is still expecting a March referral for our family. That is only 7 months away!
