You have been cordially invited to a pity party...

Come on and call already! It's not hard, there's just 10 little numbers on the phone to push, anyone can do it. Ring phone ring!

I am not waiting well now. Ever since we were told that we are getting close to a referral, well you know what happens. I didn't want to be this kind of waiter. I want to be occupied, in control, and calm. I wanted the call to catch me completely off guard. I have PLENTY to keep me busy, yet my mind can only focus on getting a referral. For the love of God, there are agencies with waiting babies simply because they don't have enough applicants. Why can't that be our agency? I have been good.

Tomorrow marks the 3 year anniversary of the day we turned our very first application in. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR 3 LONG YEARS! Don't you think it's about time that WE get the call?

Thanks for coming to my party, I have to go check to see if the phone is working properly now.

Who Knows?

I think I was doing better with the adoption wait when I thought that we would be getting a referral at the end of 2009 (the wait times have gone from 17+ months to 13-14 months). I don't know why I told myself this, but I did. Right now we are 4 weeks behind the "next person on the waiting list". There is no rhyme or reason for how fast or slow that referral will come. Now I am a basket case thinking that if 2 or 3 baby girls came into orphanage custody it could be us getting a phone call. Of course, the agency will not let you know how many people stand between you and the "next person on the waiting list". At least school starts again on Monday and hopefully it will keep my wandering mind occupied enough to survive these next couple of months. If things go as they have been we would be getting a call by March. Sooner would be fine with me. I am hoping to travel this summer so we can have some quality time together before 3rd semester nursing school starts. All this assuming, of course, that we would be getting a referral soon. I do know that about 1 month ago we were in the top 20. They would not tell us if we were closer to the top or bottom of the list. I think that every agency worker should be hired only after going through the adoption process themselves so that they would know how aggravating the limited information is. I also understand the lengths we take even tiny bits of information to, and why they have to remain consistent with information they are allowed to give. I just want a fricking referral phone call!

In other news, we had a fabulous time at Disney World. I would not recommend going over Christmas time if you want to get on any rides, but all in all it was a great vacation. We did not get any great pictures, but I will post some when we get them uploaded.