We MADE it..at LEAST this far!

So first off, those of you that keep a blog...I commend you for the amount of work it takes to put these things together and make it look good.  I had no clue!  It's a whole lot easier to spy on other people's blogs than to create your own..and about the time my 14 month old decided to gang up with the other 2 and declare mutiny, I decided my blog looked good enough!

Meanwhile, I am excited that I have a reason to create this blog in the first place!  We are officially on the list for a referral as of a May 12th!  YAY!  We have been looking forward to this part for over 2 years now and it feels great.  It makes the entire thing REAL.  Up until now, I tried to not get my hopes up and stay realistic (particularly through the times where it looked like our adoption plans were not working out) but now we are so close to knowing who our next daughter will be, and so naturally all that practicality goes out the window!

We have been told that we are #5 on the waiting list...which is A LOT closer to the top than we expected but there are many factors that play into which child will be referred to us (age, gender of the referrals, medical conditions, who else is on the list, how many babies they have to refer) and from what I hear it can be a short wait or a very long one, even at this point. 

Please pray that we remember it's "God's timing" throughout all of this...

(Surely, we have come through enough to know that this will unfold the way it should,...regardless of how anxious we may become along the way, but ONE can never be too sure how emotionally invested ONE may get..can ONE...so prayers are always a great idea!)

Thanks to all the adoption blogs out there that got us inspired to do one too and thrilled to be following in your footsteps! Your words taught us so much about what to expect during this process and your videos and pictures have been invaluable.  We feel like we have adopted at least 200 babies after following along with your journeys...and yet after 200 we still want another?  Hmmmm....

Must have been quite the encouragement!