Feeling Better

Mommy and Madison stayed home from church this morning, just to recover a bit. It was another cold and wet day, though the temperature is warming up some. Both are feeling better, but still needed a little rest. There was a service this evening that we all went to, and Madison was happy to get out of the house and go play with her friends at the church.

We just got another e-mail newsletter from Great Wall, the adoption organization we went through to get Madison. They had a challenging year last year with the adoption process slow down. I haven't posted this here before, but it's something to think about: the adoption wait time has gotten so slow that if we had waited just two months longer to send in our dossier, we'd just now be going to China (a year and a half later!).

All those poor people waiting and waiting! We first sent our dossier in and were thinking it'd be around six months, as it had been for all those adopting previous to us. For years, people had been adopting from China without that much of a wait time.

Maybe that's why slowed down so much. So many people wanting to adopt at the same time, and some other situations worked together to drag out that waiting time for us to about three years. For the people who sent in their dossiers only two months after us...over four years!

There are many things we're thankful for in life. So much to be grateful for. But one of the biggest is that we already have Madison with us, and we've spent the last year and a half with her having the time of our lives!