Referrals for AWAA families

Four families recently (4/25/08) received referrals for their children. There were four total referrals in April - a bit lower than usual but our agency seems very busy at work to get more referrals out to families. The recent referrals were as follows:

Infant Boy: DTE: 10/5/2007
Infant Girl: DTE: 8/30/2007
Toddler: DTE: 10/15/2007
Waiting Children: DTE: 3/19/2008

Waiting children are older children. There tends to be less interest in the adoption of older children. This is why a family with a DTE 3/19/08 received referral so soon. Roscoe and I would love to adopt older children in the future - but for now, we figure we should learn how to raise children from birth forward! :) According to these referrals, the wait time for an infant boy is still 5-7 months.

There is a YG for families from our agency adopting from Ethiopia. I have been checking posts and connecting with families, but I find the more I am on the chat group, the more anxious I become about our adoption. I have started to have dreams about our referral and travel - and if you know me, I typically have anxious dreams. So I'm scaling back my chat group activity. The adoption is out of our control now and we are just waiting. Worrying will not help anything or anyone.

So anyway, we are almost two months along in our waiting. It is going by fast!