Speechless

I don't even know what to say at this point. The world of international adoption is sure a crazy one. We list obsessed, forum reading members of my adoption agency have been on a wacky roller coaster ride for the last week.

To think we were number 88 on the list not that long ago when we started waiting and it seemed like it would take forever for us to get out of the 80's. Then we would have a good month of referrals like March and get excited only to see April be really slow.

May on the other hand has been FABULOUS!!! We started the month of May at #71 on the unofficial waiting list. Ready for my newest favorite number

#44

It is true. We moved up another 5 spots on the unofficial list in the last day. Crazy, huh?

We are so thrilled for all the families who have been anxiously waiting to start or add to their family. We know that someday when the time is right we will have our own good news to share. We are just happy to be moving up the list.

Someone on the message boards posted today an important reminder. She reminded all of us that look at the list to keep in mind that there is lots of info we don't know. All the list shows is our name and dossier acceptance date and what type of child we are open to receiving. There is a TON of private personal and medical info that is not part of the list. We need to all trust that there are reasons we may get skipped over. If a family below us gets a referral before we do there is a reason. Matching families with babies is not an exact science so we must all trust in our specialists to match us with the perfect baby for our family and if a family below us on the list gets a referral first then their baby just happened to find them before ours did. It is easy to think we are all on this list and one by one we move up but it isn't always in order. There are special circumstances with each and every child and the specialists need to match those circumstances with the family that is the best fit.

The list I look at is unofficial so really we figure at this point we are probably in the 80's on the official list. Most likely high 80's to low 90's. The unofficial list only represents about 40-50% of the waiting families and our specialists will never tell us exactly where we are on the official list because of all the special circumstances that each family is open to.

We have heard rumblings of more referrals to come so who knows what is to come in the next few days but rest assured I will keep everyone posted on my new favorite number.