Where Oh Where Could Our Letter Be......

Well, I pulled out my calendar today and did an "official" count of the number of days we've been waiting now for our Letter Of Confirmation......and it was a rather startling number.....are you all ready?? Today is Day #133 of the predicted 90-120 day wait. Hmmmmmm........maybe you're wondering why I didn't know this number right off the top of my head........and I'm sure you're wondering where, oh where, our letter might be!

To answer your first question, I have to admit that I just can't bear to keep track daily of the number of days we're waiting. As it is, I'm already beginning to lose my sanity with our adoption wait!! And having that number bobbing around in my head every moment of every day would probably put me over the edge:)

But more importantly, the answer to your second question.......we don't know! Yes, it's true. We really don't know. The way our Letter works is that our agency will first recieve it from Ch*na, and then our agency will call us to let us know it's on it's way to our home. Then, when our Letter arrives to us, we sign it, send it back to our agency, who then sends it back to Ch*na. We were reassured that this wait would, at the most, be around 120 days. As you can see, we're well beyond that now. Unfortunately there really isn't anything we can do. And there really isn't any reason that we know FOR SURE as to why the wait is growing. We have been noticing that other families from our agency and from other agencies are waiting beyond 120 days, too, so maybe this is some kind of trend. But not a trend we wanted to be a part of, for sure!!

So, as far as we know, nothing is wrong with our case. We just appear to be stuck:) Of course, Someone else knows exactly WHAT is going on and WHY. And He knows WHERE our Letter is and WHEN it will makes it's way to our doorstep:) So, I was just curious if that Somebody could maybe leave me a little hint.......and a little spiked egg nog to hold me over until it comes:)