Yesterday was my 33rd birthday. When I woke up yesterday morning, I didn't remember that it was my birthday. I'm so hyper focused on this home study update and getting everything done, that it completed slipped my mind until Patrick told me Happy Birthday.
Despite my forgetfulness, it turned out to be a great birthday. Patrick got me Rascal Flatts tickets, and the concert is the night before our 11th anniversary so he killed two birds with one stone. We don't typically do anniversary gifts so that will more than cover it.
We finally had our appointments with our new doctor to update our medicals yesterday morning. Everything went smoothly, and I really liked him. We went and did our blood work this morning, and once that all comes back we'll be rocking and rolling and well on the way to completing another home study update.
We've now been officially registered and waiting for two years and nine months. I think, based on the trend that I've seen, that we should receive a referral sometime between September 2014 and April 2015. Could it be sooner? I'm not ruling out the possibility, but I'm basing my math on what has happened to most families in the past couple of months. Most families are receiving referrals around the three and a half year mark.
Once we receive a referral, we will travel to Bulgaria for one week to meet and bond with our daughter. Then we come home for four to six months, and while we're back here in the states court takes place, and she becomes ours officially. Then we go back for 10-14 days for our Gotcha trip and bring her home with us.
So if we receive a referral at three and a half years (nine months from now), travel a month (give or take) later, and then travel around six months after that to bring her home, we could conceivably have our daughter home in approximately 16 months. Obviously, that's all speculation, but I like putting some sort of quantitative measurement on this whole process. It helps me function better.
Sixteen months sounds like an eternity to most people, but for us, at this point, it seems like a drop in the bucket.
Still we pray that, by some miracle, it's sooner . . . much, much sooner . . .
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I continue to pray for your family in this process. Our referral came 3 years 1 week and 1 day from the te we were officially registered with the MOJ. The approximately 5 months between trips fell longer than the whole process. You guys are doing good.
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