Annalee takes her test for pre-team in gymnastics tomorrow afternoon. She is very excited! She has been watching the Olympics on t.v. and had decided that she wants a gold medal too. She has been mimicking the "moves" all day. OMG she is so cute! Oh how I love this little girl! Who knew??? I had no idea how much I would love being a parent. WOW! So much so that we are waiting for her sister... we thought we would be finished after just 1 child together. Nope, God had other plans for us. Hurray!!!

Adoption is definitely not for weenies... this "gestation period" has taken so long, many people that have been waiting over a year and a half are choosing to end their wait . It is so sad to hear about families adoption dreams dying. It is so sad that when we all signed up for this, the wait was about 1 year, it keeps getting longer and longer. The wait is projected to go well over 3 years for the traditional child program.

We signed up for the Waiting Child Program in October 2007, so we think that we are getting close to a referral of our daughter. We almost signed up for the Waiting Child Program when we started this process, I thought I allowed someone to talk us out of it. I used to be angry about this and the person... (whom is no longer in our circle of friends) but in retrospect, we would not have the child that we are meant to have if we had gone with what we thought was "our" plan. I can now say I understand the reason why that person was in my life and I am thankful. It took me a long time (over a year) to come to that realization - but I am now very grateful for her presence in my life. I only thought I "allowed" her to influence me - all in God's time.