8 Months on the Dot!

Today we have been officially waiting (meaning our dossier completed and getting on the waiting list) for 8 months. This is bitter sweet for me. Bitter because I can't believe we're still waiting. When we started out our adoption process, I was sure by Jalen's 5th birthday we'd already have her, or at least know who she is (referral). Boy, was I wrong. Here we are 8 months later and still no referral, and the way it looks, probably no referrals until after we hit the 1 year mark. So this is the bitter part; the sweet part is that we have done a little over half of the waiting so just another 6 or 8 months to go ...... Lord, I sure hope not. But whether I want to admit it to myself or not, that's just a fact. And according to our adoption consultant, she predicted that nothing is likely to move for us before February 2010. So we continue to do what we do best, hurry up and wait.