So Close!

Today marks the first day of spring and hopefully the beginning of our last week of waiting to get our referral. Many have speculated that we would hear by this Friday. I sure hope so, we could use some good news. My Uncle Cleo died last week and we were so busy with the funeral and out of town guests that I was really hoping that the referral wouldn't come amongst all of the confusion. I wanted to be able to give 100% to both situations. We went to Sheri and John Winter's on Saturday and had a get together with the families that we are adopting with. Out of 12 couples, 10 were able to make it. We had a blast and we look even more forward to going to China now. We joked that the Chinese will kick us out for laughing too much. Everyone has a story and a reason for adopting and you really get a sense that they are just as anxious as we are to add to our family. We were sure hoping that we would have had our referral pictures to share with each other but that will give us another excuse to get together. One mom is an OB-Gyn at Providence hospital and a dad is a Pediatric Intensive Care Dr. so I really feel lucky that we will have some experts on hand. We hope that this week we will finally get the call that we have waited so long for! We had 3 babies staying with us last week so the house is pretty much baby proofed now! We are ready!