WAITING FOR THE "WAITING CHILD" LIST!!!

Sorry all of these posts are out of order but we are trying to go back and catch you all up on what has been going on for the last 13 months!! Once we get caught up then hopefully the posts will be easier to follow! Okay... so we started becoming interested in what our agency calls the "waiting child" program back at the end of last July. The waiting child lists are comprised of children who either are simply older or who have some kind of a health issue. Our agency receives a new list about every three months. Some great friends of ours found their little girl off of a list that came out last August. Then there was a list that came out in November and this is when we decided we wanted to seriously consider the next waiting child list that should have come out in February. In January, we had made it official with our agency that we were open to finding our Gracie off of one of the waiting child lists. We had to fill out a new "desired child" form that stated what age range we desired (6-18 months) and had to check the boxes of what health issues we felt we could handle. Well, unexpectedly our agency received another list right away in December. They still thought they would receive another list in February but by mid-march we were still waiting but by this point were told that we were one of the first families who they would try to match a child to!! We were so excited and on pins and needles!!! They called us on March 27th and said that the list had finally been sent from China and was on it's way!! But it does take several days to arrive and then possibly up to a week to be translated from chinese to English and so they told us not to expect a call until probably Monday, April 9th. This seemed okay though because we were spending the week in Boise for Spring break and that sort of distracted us from being completely consumed with anticipation.......(if you want to read the posts in order of how they happened then read the post titled "Getting the Call" next, then "Gracie's pulmonary stenosis," and then "We signed our final paperwork".)