The long, long, LONG wait is over!

This morning, at 8:15, I got THE CALL from my agency and found out that they finally had our referral translated and was back from BLAS. We have a wonderful, amazing, beautiful SON (born 26 July 2011.)

Here he is, our Little Maple, now known as Adam Sawyer Haijun - just waiting for us to hug him.

We will receive our referral package tomorrow via Fed Ex - what a great way to spend the Canada Day long weekend.

No news

Our agency is *hoping* to get the translation back tomorrow - if not, then it's going to be Tuesday since it's a long weekend here. Hopefully, if all goes well, I'll be posting Little One's picture tomorrow at some point (after family and close friends have been notified.)

(Bonnie, thanks for your lovely comment on the previous post.) :)

Beautiful...

My dear friend, Elaine, wrote this song for Josh and I a few years ago about our wait. Have a listen, but keep the tissues nearby...

Look what arrived today...

No, not our referral - but these flowers (from some very special friends). The first bouquet arrived this morning, with two others later in the day. The picture doesn't even come close to doing it justice. The words and sentiments attached to these wonderful flowers will be remembered. Always.

What a whirlwind!

We got an email yesterday afternoon from our agency that they received our referral! They have to go through the paperwork, translate it and we should expect our phone call by next Friday - six years of waiting is now reduced to a measly six more days of waiting. I can't wait to finally see Little Maple's face!

FINALLY!

We should be getting our referral in the next couple of weeks. Apparently it takes about a week for the referral package to get from Beijing to our agency and then they hold onto it for a few days (up to a week) and translate all the information. If all goes well, we should be travelling at the end of August - give or take. :)

It's so hard to put into words, exactly what we're feeling right now.

It only took 69 months (2108 days). Wow, just wow.

Fortune telling...?

I meant to post this last week. My mom went out for Chinese food on the 13th (hopefully our final LIDiversary) and inside her fortune cookie she saw this...

Referrals are imminent!

"We believe the CCCWA is preparing paperwork to work on matches at this time. We hope to receive more information regarding the next group of matches very soon. As soon as more information arrives, we will update this site."

Rumours

RQ thinks that the next batch may arrive in just over a week. Hard to imagine that the past (almost) six years of waiting, hoping and dreaming are now down to a few measly days. There’s something so overpowering about one simple four-letter word… NEXT!

21?

There's roughly another three weeks to wait until our referral. It seems so weird that it's just a matter of a few, short weeks until we get to find out who our child is.

...and now it's June

It feels so weird to say (again) that at some point THIS MONTH we're going to know who our child is. After 14 years of waiting, wishing, dreaming and hoping, we are finally going to be a family of three. To celebrate the beginning of our referral month, Josh took me out for a lovely dinner.