No Where to Go but Off the List

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

Vacation...Yes Please!

75 Days Since Last Referral.  Reached out to our social worker early on last week to see what the dealio is and still waiting to hear back.  Ho Hum. Guess I'll be calling her again this week to see if anyone has manned up yet and asked the question of our S. Korean agency?   


In the meantime, we had all intentions of sitting on a beach today drinking fruity cocktails after a morning of diving.  Ahhhhh refreshing.  However, that's not working out to well for us as we're sitting here in our living room drinking water after a morning of prepping the camper for next weekend.  Very excited to be busting out the ole camper for a short weekend with friends of ours from Champaign.  This will be our first trip with them, including their little guy who just turned 3...Happy Birthday J!  Lots to take in watching how life will be with a little one in tow.    


So we've had much discussion and deliberation this last week on status of a vacation.  From a recent call with our social worker, we were told to go on living our lives and not wait around for a referral.  Easier said than done.  However, after we confirmed in writing that when a referral was given we'd have 2 weeks to make a decision and that she could send us everything to review by email, we were sold!  We've booked our trip to Cozumel and look forward to hitting the sun, surf, and sand in May....and of course there will be WiFi!!  Oh how I've missed you my underwater camera; how I long to float in a pool with a swim up bar; how I love not having to cook or clean up for an entire week : ) 

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. - E Wilson