Waiting in Line

Have any of you ever gone shopping on Black Friday? If so, you'll easily relate. If not, you'll have to imagine joining the back of a check out line with your items, knowing that the line wraps all the way around the store before you even see the register. And, when you reach the front of that line (2 hours later) you meet a sales associate who gives you a ticket and says that you are now able to join the line where you will actually check your items out at the register. So, you've waited all this time in a preliminary line and are now progressing to the REAL check out line.

In our adoption process, we are basically at the front of the preliminary line and waiting for the ticket to the actual waiting line. That is, we are waiting for our approval letter to come, hopefully this week. When we receive the approval letter, the official wait begins. After that, we will be waiting for a call from our adoption agency that we have been chosen as the family a birthmom would like to place her baby with. The birthmom could be at any point in her pregnancy or there could be a baby that has been born and is at the hospital, ready to be picked up.

So, as you can see, once we get in the real check out line we have no idea how fast or slow it will be moving. Literally, our baby could come home with us in a matter of days, weeks, or months. We are trying to do what we can to be ready for any scenerio. The boys moved to their bedroom upstairs. The baby bed is up and the nursery is coming together. We were blessed to find a super great deal on a van and David sold his Jeep to help pay for it. So, we now have room for three carseats. I guess you could say that we are most definitely "sitting on GO." We'll keep you posted!