Waiting

Many times the adoption journey is full of wonderful, exciting, busy news. But there are many other times where the only thing to do is wait. I feel like the better part of my life over the last six years has been in a time of waiting. While there is always something going on and something to do, most of it is filler during the waiting for a bigger event.



The busy parts of life help life move forward. Being busy is not always bad, in fact many times it is necessary. However, there are parts of life that can be left buried and not to be dealt with, covered by the busyness of things that "must be done." Then one day, you realize it has been years since you started your journey, years of waiting, years of planning, years of organizing and working toward a goal only to be left to wait. There are times when those years seem overwhelmingly long, and moments when they seem to have not happened at all. Such goes the way of life, and yet, the hope is not lost, the dream is not forgotten, the desire to accomplish a goal has not wavered.



So as we continue to wait, grow, grieve, and change, we also hope, desire, and dream, that any day, any day, we would receive the news that a birth mom has picked us. That our time of waiting is coming to an end, that the years of prep and hard work have gotten us to our end goal, until then, we have faith and we wait.