One year mark

Well, one whole year of waiting with our paperwork in South Africa has come and gone, and no little Lorentzon baby! That is crazy to me.

If you look at that ticker graphic above, it looks like the happy little baby has reached the finish line after 12 months, so my question is : what is it going to do now? Move backwards toward the start?!?! See, even a computer graphic knows that waiting one year is WAY too long.

Now that we have gone past every single timeframe that we had hoped for (summer 2007 / before KT's second class in fall 2007 / before Christmas 2007 / in time to be home a few months before heading to the US for the summer / before Easter 2008 / before the one-year mark 2008 / ) we don't really have anything left to hope for in that regard. Makes things a little bit easier, but not much! I guess the only thing we have left to hope for (timing-wise) is that it will happen before summer 2008! Man, if it doesn't happen before summer 2008, somebody send me to the moon or something!

If someone had told me back in April 2006, when we decided to adopt, that we still wouldn't have our baby in April 2008, I wonder what I would have said! I wonder if I would have thought it sounded "feasible" at all! I wonder if I would have given up completely!

But that doesn't matter now. Here we are, two years in, one year of waiting for the phone call, and we still have to hang on to that hope that "WE'RE ALMOST THROUGH!"

I just hope that "almost" is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON and I just hope that "soon" is REALLY soon.