My mother asked me about how the adoption is coming along today, so I mentioned my frustration with the AEP taking 13 weeks to complete. She said something along the lines of "You'll get it done and they'll want to place a sibling group of 4 with you!" We hadn't mentioned that that's exactly what we're looking into doing. I told her that then and she got quite excited, especially when I told her the children in the group on MCFD's website are all under 7. She asked if we'd have them for Christmas HAHA. I am so exited about her enthusiasm. It really does make me happy - I think she was frustrated by the wait time as well - which helps me to realize that I'm not entirely unreasonable in my frustration.
I found another 13 books to add to our growing library of Adoption/Parenting books. Our library is getting quite extensive, as is my "research reference document" - It's a list of all the references I want to keep track or, like DVDs, Books, Radio Broadcasts, Interviews, webinars, and websites that I want to keep track of so that I can return to them at a later date. I'm working on my 5th page of a word document now.
Of course you're not unreasonable in your frustration. I realize you have to wait no matter how you have children, but with adoption there's no firm timeline and it's harder, at least in my opinion! I've never heard anyone say, "well, yeah, we adopted, but at least we got to wait a year and a half." We're all pretty excited. And don't worry - they might not be here this Christmas but they will be here next Christmas. :)
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