Drum roll please........
We are.....
number....
11!!!!!
Truly exciting that we have moved off #15. Last month, the committee placed eight children to Honduran families at one meeting and eight children to international families at a meeting a couple days later. Children are always placed with Honduran families as a first priority, which I completely support. Next in line are international families (American, Canadian, European) in the order that they are on the wait list. After the referrals are made, and the families accept their referrals, then a new wait list is prepared with new wait list numbers. And we are now #11.
Yeah, I know, my math is better than that. 15 minus 8 does not equal 11. The reason we are not at number 7 on the wait list is that because some of the children that were referred did not fit in with what we could accept (i.e., they were older children or had special medical needs), and the committee had to look farther down the list to find families that could accept them. Keep in mind that when we started this process back in November 2009, our youngest child was just 3 1/2. We wanted to keep birth order as it is, so specified one or two children, age 3 or younger. Of course, Erik is closing in on 6 now, but I still think that age 3 or younger is a good plan for us.
We understand that the committee is working on another meeting, just don't know the date for that yet. Progress!!