We are true believers that everything happens for a reason. Today we learned that the cutoff for the next group is October 24th....three days away from our LID of October 27. Although we may never understand "why" we do know that there is a master plan and that it seems this month was not meant to be. And so, we will wait some more.
We knew that getting excited this last month would be a risk....we knew that there was a chance that we would not be included in this group...especially with the agency being shut down over the holiday. But we also knew that there was a chance that we could be included. For the first time in over two years we had a chance and we were awaiting the arrival of the referrals not only to see how far they would get....but to wait with anticipation in hopes that we would be getting the call along with the other families this month. We were excited, we set up a registry, we read travel books...heck, we bought our first box of Cheerios for the kiddo. And even though this is the toughest moment of our journey so far, we wouldn't change the last few weeks for anything. Even though this was not the outcome we had hoped for, we had fun imagining the possibility of being next.
But now, we no longer have to imagine the possibility...now we can finally say that we WILL be in the next batch. They will only have to match three days in order to reach our file. And...dare I say...in the last two years the smallest amount they have matched was five days last summer.
Today has been hard on us. And knowing that we are "next" still doesn't take away the sting from today's announcement. It will take a few days for us to pick ourselves up and brush ourselves off. But we will...and when we do, we will know that our turn is next!
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May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
- Psalm 20:4
This means that YOUR DAUGHTER was just not ready to be assigned yet. She is waiting for next month as well.
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