Ummm.....Number 3, Could it Possibly Be??

A while back, when we learned that we could be #5 on the list. We also learned that two families that already had received referrals were added back to the waiting list.  There were some problems obtaining the paperwork on their referred children and instead of having the families wait for an indefinite amount of time they decided to encourage the families to move on to another child.  We knew that one of the families had already received their new referral but we never heard anything about the other family.  So all of this time we have been keeping them on the list thinking that they still hadn't received their new referral.....until yesterday.....

I got an email from my friend Michelle yesterday--who is behind us on the waiting list.  She went back and read our last "In Process" update from our agency.....and here is what it said:

"There are new babies in the nursery but we are waiting for more legal work to be completed before offering them to families. Therefore there hasn’t been much movement on the waiting list. The next family to be offered a baby girl is an old family whose referral had to be withdrawn,  the next will be the last December family. For boys, we have one more family whose dossier went to Ethiopia in April of 2009 and they will likely be offered the next baby boy. It looks like the time from submission to referral will be getting a bit longer, though we expect to be doing some catch up once legal documents come through".

From this information I am assuming that the mystery family already received their new referral because the family that just got a referral, was the December family!  So that means that we could actually be #3 on the waiting list!  At this point I only know of 2 families that are ahead of us so that pretty much leaves the #3 spot for us   =)

I am looking forward to next week and I am hoping that we will hear something from our agency about the status of available children etc.  If we don't hear anything this week I will put a call in to them on Monday the 26th because that date marks our 13th month on the waiting list.  

As much as I would like to say that we are #1......I am completely enjoying being #3 right now  =)

Have a great day.....

Wendy