Hurry up and WAIT.

       Please forgive me for my lack of posting. I do find it more fun to blog and share when I actually have something to post about.
       During this waiting time, while we keep being told that referrals will come in September, then nothing, ok they will come in November, still nothing and now they will come in December and hopefully some news will come soon for someone in our adoption circle. It will not be for us because I have been informed that our profile is still in Ontario and will not be going to Africa because the are too many there right now waiting.
    The Adoption process is a lot of hurry up and WAIT.

• Hurry up and fill out these forms and wait for a reply
• Hurry up and get a medical and wait for the results
• Hurry up and get fingerprints and wait for them to come back
• Hurry up and prove you are a Canadian Citizen and wait a really long time (still waiting!!)
• Hurry up and put together your profile wait for it to be sent
• Hurry up and pay so you can move to the next step and wait
• Hurry up and get marriage and birth certificates and wait for them to come in the mail
• Hurry up and phone the adoption agency and wait for a response
• Hurry up and get documents notarized and wait for them to be added to your dossier
• Hurry up and go to this course and wait for hands on experience
• Hurry up and prove your home is fit for children and wait for children to fill it
• Hurry up and sign your home study and wait for it to come back
• Hurry up and tell family and friends you are adopting and wait
• Hurry up and show me the money then wait to book flights and travel
• wait for dossier to be sent, wait for referral, wait to be able to travel, wait to hug your child,

Waiting to be a forever family.
Maybe I am not in the best mood to be blogging tonight and this is the reason for the lack of posting. oh well this is the real feelings during this slow moving time. Love Dilly

Emotional Roller Coaster

    Sorry for not filling you in. It has been a busy emotional month. We had been told by our agency that 12 children would be available at the end of November. So this made me hopeful. I was feeling really excited and I compared it to the feeling of when you are just pregnant but it is too early to take a test. And every where you go and all you can think about is "am I pregnant?" or "baby".
    Then I phone MOT on Monday to make sure everything in our file is there and see if we are officially waiting. The answer was that they our still reviewing our file. I just felt like saying WHAT? I thought we were passed this point. I thought that we were further along. ugh that was a blow. but I was told they were reviewing it that day and would phone me back. Monday will be a week, still waiting for a phone call.
    Its hard to know when to phone and push for things to happen without being a pest.
     Later on Monday November 15 we got an email update from our program director. It was a monthly update. All of us in the adoption process have been longing to have update and communication from the agency for sometime. The update said that the baby house in Durban is up and running so this is a positive. But the negative is what sticks out at me. The 12 children available and the end of November has been pushed back to 1 or 2 referrals by the end of December. I'm not sure why? I don't understand. I think it is sucky. The update stated that they are hoping to have a lot of referrals in the beginning of the new year.
     There hasn't been any referrals since the world cup, which will be 6 months with no children coming home. blah is all i can say. Love Dilly