One Year Since Taking the Plunge...

Today marks one year since turning in our initial application to Gladney to start the adoption. (My body decided to celebrate this occasion with the stomach flu this morning, but hey, I'm down to my goal weight now-gotta look at the bright side!) This past year has been a roller-coaster ride full of emotional highs and lows. I thought we'd be further along on the waitlist by now in terms of number of months waiting, but we believe that God had a plan and reason for our paperwork holdup last summer. I did get a little discouraged the other night when I was blog-stalking and found another twin-only Gladney family who has been on the waitlist for 11 months...I'm praying that they get their referral soon! But, then I found the Gladney FBI, which is an unofficial list of Gladney families in various stages of the process. Another family got a twin-girl referral after only 8 months waiting, so those numbers look better! And, according to the boy list, we are #23...but like I said, this list is totally unofficial and is not intended to be a predictor for when we'll get a referral! We've also begun redoing all of our paperwork that will expire in the next couple of months. We have our physical exams scheduled and need to do an update on our homestudy, financial statement, employment letters, and criminal and child abuse clearances. The paperchase seems to never end, but it will be worth it!