Taking time to smell the flowers...

We are in the process of adopting a baby from India. We have been in the process for nearly four years now with the various starts and stops that come with the territory. I'll sum it up for you: fill out paperwork, wait..., fill out more paperwork, wait..., more paperwork, more waiting. That's about the gist of it! Is it worth it? Absolutely! Has it taken a lot more work and a lot more time to finish than I ever imagined it possibly could? Definitely. But it's still so worth it!


So we recently got some great news (I mean really, really great almost too good to believe news) along with the usual news concerning our adoption process. First the great news, we were granted an extension to our future baby's immigration permit on our first request. This is HUGE because we would not have been able to continue our adoption if we hadn't received this permit and it was a one time chance. So we are breathing a huge sigh of relief. And for the usual news, more waiting! Till when? We don't know... For how long? No idea! Have they given you a time frame? Yes, but it was three years so you can see why that no longer applies!

The upside to all this is we have plenty of time to stop and smell the flowers. Which is just what Shortcake wanted to do over and over on our walk the other day. No more paperwork (that I know of) for at least another few months and we just wait...easy, yet hard all at the same time.