Moving up to #8!

Yeah! We just got the news today that several referrals have gone through now that ISRC in India has received their renewal liscense and we have jumped from #13 to #8 on the referral list! We were told to not get too excited. It will still take a while. We are learning that there is nothing quick about the adoption process. There are still a couple of NRI families (families of Indian heritage) who get first choice when referrals come in, and then of course there are still some families in front of us on the non-NRI list. If I haven't explained it before...when a child is relinquished to ISRC (usually by a single mother), they have to receive paperwork from the government stating that they are available for adoption. Then, the children first have to be made available for domestic adoption to families in India. After that, then they become available for international adoption. That is when they are presented to first the NRI families and then the non-NRI families on the referral lists at our agency here in the US. I guess you can see why the process can take such a long time. Oh well. Today I don't care so much about that. I am just enjoying for this moment that we have moved up the list! :) Tomorrow I will settle back into the waiting game we have been playing.