Four Months

Today we have been on the waitlist for 4 months! So hard to believe!

Next month it will be one year since we started our adoption. Last year when we started the process with Gladney the average wait time for a referral was 4 months. When we got on the waitlist in April the average wait was 5 months. Then a month went by and the average wait became 5 1/2 months. Another month on the waitlist goes by and the average wait became 6 months. So now today marks 4 months waiting and the average wait is 7 months. It's all good. I will continue to be patient; continue to stalk the Gladney FBI list; and continue loving what I already have been blessed with.

Speaking of stalking the unofficial waitlist (Gladney Ethiopia FBI), we are 20th on this list of waiting families and 10th for those of us waiting for a girl/either gender from the age zero up to 24 months. This is an unofficial waitlist but it gives waiting families the opportunity to meet other families who are going through the same process. It's so exciting to read about other referrals and then to follow the family as they bring their child/children home from Ethiopia. So thank you Grace for the FBI list!! Love it!