Many people in adoption circles talk about the adoption process as a big roller coaster ride. I always thought it was a little overly dramatic until Sunday, when I found myself crying on the phone to my mom saying, "It is such a freakin' roller coaster!" On Sunday we got an e-mail from our agency saying wait times for referrals have gone from 1-4 months to 6-10 months. Since we have only officially been waiting for 1 month, that would mean we might not get a referral until January of next year. That would also mean that we couldn't go get them until the beginning of April of NEXT YEAR! I was so sad. The next morning I called our agency representative to ask her about the increase (I imagine the poor woman got rather a lot of similar phone calls from everyone else who got the e-mail). She said that it doesn't include us. As of right now, the person who waited the longest for a referral was waiting for 6 months, and that was because they requested specifically a 5 year old girl and a 3 year old boy and it took a long time for children of these specific ages and genders to be found. Our rep went on to say that the average wait for people in our position on the list was anywhere from 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 months... so 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 months from now. So, from the depths of despair to elation in less than 24 hours. It is really, really a roller coaster.
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