A flurry of activity today as I was sitting on a conference call for work. Looked over to see I had a voice mail message from a nearby area code, and as I ran it through my mind I immediately thought of a certain family waiting for a referral. I was correct! As I listened to the message it was our #1 family giving me the heads up that they received a referral of a 7 month old boy!! Well I guess that now makes us the #1 family for a boy!!! As my heart started racing from excitement, I also noticed I had a few emails, Facebook alerts, and then came the texts. Boy it doesn't take long for the word to travel in our little Lifelink adoption community and in this era of technology. Thank you everyone for the encouraging words and shared excitement.
After the last few weeks wondering and reaching out to anyone for information about the referral standstill, I am insanely happy to finally start seeing movement on the referral front. Hopefully this is the jump start needed for continued referrals to come. I'm even more excited for this referral announcement in that we've become friends with the the family that received this sweet little boy. Can't wait to get more details and to celebrate the addition to their family.
I want to take a moment to clarify and give recognition to the 3 lovely families ahead of us on the overall list with Lifelink. When I say we are #1, that is for the referral of a boy...though we are open to either gender. So we also have 3 families ahead of us waiting for a girl which makes us #4 on the overall list. May all of us be connected with our little ones in the coming days, weeks, and months!
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. - A Rubinstein
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