Adoption Update

A bit down right now on the adoption front. The delays just seem to never end. The latest prediction from our agency is that we might expect a referral in the Sept/Oct timeframe. When we submitted our Russian dossier at the end of February I really thought we would be home from our second trip by then. There are continuous reminders that none of this is really within our control. I had compared the adoption wait to a pregnancy, but a pregnancy does have a pretty definite end date, within a week or two.

On the plus side, I did have concerns about the age difference between Natalie and the new baby being too close. And I know I should be using this extra time to my advantage. It is just a frustrating time, not having any real idea of when it will happen. Planning anything is difficult. We did finally decide to take a vacation (from last post), which we had not planned because I was sure that "any day now we'll be traveling".

I will find the humor in it in a later post. I'm just grumbling in this one.