35 Months

Are the months adding up now or what?!

I have zero sympathy anymore for expectant women who complain about how done they are being pregnant.

The way I see it, I've got a minimum of 25 months on them. In fact, I could have had THREE birth children in the same amount of time.

Wouldn't it be nice if someone could medically induce this wait?

On the bright side, at least I didn't have to give up wine.

June 2009 Match Statistics

Referrals were made on June 19th for families with Log In Dates through March 20, 2006.

34 Months. No End In Sight.

Our agency's founders were in town last month to meet with waiting families. We weren't able to attend, but a synopsis of common questions was posted to the CCAI website.

It wasn't encouraging.

Their best estimate is the wait max will reach 4 years, perhaps a few months longer....

It's hard to not lose faith. I'll be honest. Our faith is beginning to wane....

Might The Call change?

And what would that look like?

We are continuing to ask the Lord to be unmistakable in His direction, but I think we are beginning to prepare ourselves for the end of this journey to look very different than what we expected when we began.

May 2009 Match Stats

This post is 22 days late. May has been a little nuts. And other than the passing of yet another month, there's not been anything to report anyway.

The matches that generally occur near the beginning of each month were three weeks late this month. Not sure what that means for matches going forward.... I can't imagine there will be referrals again at the beginning of June.

I wish I could say I'm getting better at this waiting.

That said, we've reached the end of a monumental season for our family! We are done home schooling. The kids have finished their school year and are Mt. Paran bound in the fall! There's a lot of Alice Cooper's "School's out for summer!" and "Home school's out for EVER!" being sung around our house.

(The kids are singing it too! Heh.)

So the end of one season has me wondering about the beginning of the next. Not knowing where in time OR space our Marett-Brooke is, I find my best option to be to rest while I can.

There's a concept.

32 Months

Still no official word from the CCAA, but the "unofficial word" is that only two days worth of waiting families were matched this month.

Unreal.

March 2009 Match Statistics

31 months and counting......

The CCAA is officially three years behind in their matching. This month, they matched through March 6, 2006 - which only represents two business days of dossiers.

While rumors swirl about a "speed up" on the horizon, sanity is more important than holding our breath.

God IS in control.

He has to be.

He said He was.

Three - Oh

Had we known then what we know now - would we have done anything different?

I'd like to think, 'No'.

But if I'm being honest? I think we would have needed God Himself to show up in person - or at least have heard his AUDIBLE voice to convince us.

Just because our expectations were so limited at the time, doesn't make God any less in it now than He was three years ago.

And so we are irrevocably still "in it."

Do I hear 31??