The Waiting Game

I was at work on Friday when a coworker of mine who is also adopting called just to chat and see how things were going. They are going great I say as great as waiting can be. Unfortunatley I have ticked off all those things on the lists that have kept me preoccupied and now I just get to wait. Just to update you on the progress (yes waiting sometimes implies progress in the steps to adoption). We finished all the paper work we could for the dossier ( a very large packet of inoformation you have to send to Vietnam). By finishing up that means we had the documents state authenticated, and now they are in Washington awaiting State Dept. authentication (I wonder if I will get Condi's autograph... OH BOY, just what I always wanted) and then it is onto the Embassy of Vietnam in Washington for authentication. Once that returns we await finger prints on May 19th. Then we will wait on our 171-H approval form that then has to go to Raleigh, and back to Washington to be authenticated at the various levels. Then we will finally be ready to recieve our referral (adoption lingo for BABY). We have also been thinking of boy names. A girl has been our preference but we would love a little boy too. So far we like Caleb. We just can't find the perfect middle name that matches.

I have been on several of the web forums and am amazed at what some people are willing to commit to before they even know anything about the child they will recieve. They have bought car seats, made nursries, bought clothing, and so much more. Chris and I have bought nothing. Not becasue we are not prepared but how do you shop for a child that you don't know the age, sex, or size? I have been totally baffled by that. I have thought of sarting a medical kit you know baby asprin, cold/cough medicine, a thermometer and the likes but it just feel like that may somehow jinx this process. There will plenty of time for buying when the time is right.

I am reading alot which passes the time. Mostly stuff the social worker suggested about parenting and adoption.

At this point we are excited but in a lull. I can't wait for May 19 and some days I feel it will never get here, but then other times I feel like April has flown by.

Most of all I have talked with God alot about the child and pray that wherever my child is and possibly whoesever body s/he is growing in that they both are safe.

This really has be just some rambling thoughts............

Summer