Dada and Libby doing their circus routineLast week, we got a very short update on Miss Maisy. So short, the agency is going back to the rep in China and asking him to please get more. We received no pictures, but you already know that because if we had, they would be plastered here! The day we got the update, we had one of Libby's schoolmates and her Mom over for a play date. I said "Oh, she is 17.9 pounds, good". The Mom looked at me in horror and repeated the weight and then asked Maisy's age, and then looked at me, but could not think of something to say. The next day I was at my friend Rena's. She also has a Hubei girl. I told her how much Maisy weighed. She practically shouted, "That's Great!". All in how you look at it. :)
This June will mark the 5th anniversary of when we started the adoption process to get Libby. We expected to be home the following June with our little girl. (I am not sure how much people know about the process, but no, we were not matched with Libby all those years ago and then had to wait to get her. You are not matched with a child until right up at the end.) It would be 2-1/2 years later before we were matched. My friend LA, whom I met in a China adoption chat site had a log-in date of two months ahead of ours. When we first met, we thought Eric and I would be traveling just a few months after her and her husband. We got our referral one year after they got theirs. I go to this China adoption blog site often as it has more information than any other site I know. I see families posting who have a log in date 5-6 months after our December 2005 one. They are still waiting. And today I thought wow, take a look at the past 5 years of your life. Marriage? Divorce? Child/Children? New house? Think of all the changes that have happened in your life in that time. Then do me a favor I have no right to ask of you. Please think/pray for those people who have been waiting all this time to become a family. Close your eyes and shoot some good thoughts into space. Thank you!
Shooting a zillion good thoughts and prayers their way! I can not begin to imagine. It just doesn't seem fair:(.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get more of an update soon! I'll be watching for it!!
Oh my dear, it is all about perspective isn't it? And yes, I will keep those who are waiting in my thoughts. I can't even comprehend the wait they've had (and still have).
ReplyDeleteI agree that 17.9 lbs sounds just fine! But I was told on Friday at Stride Rite that my 4-1/2 year old daughter has the feet of a 3-year-old, so what do I know? OK, I do know that I officially want to be called LA now...
Okay, I had to come back and let you know that a family I know that has been waiting a loooooong time to adopt just got notice that they were chosen by the birth mother! She is being induced tomorrow! I think our prayers and positive thoughts helped:).
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