Waiting Family Meeting

I went to my first waiting family meeting last night with our adoption agency. I'm part of the "freshmen class" meaning that most of the people in the group are graduating seniors who just got referrals or are waiting to travel to pick up their children. Really when you think about how long this wait is turning into it is going to be like four years of high school, but instead of a diploma when we graduate we will finally be starting our family.

The group consisted of two sets of families, those waiting for China and those who already met their children in Guatemala and are waiting to go back and pick them up.

I'm not sure what I expected when I went to the meeting, but I liked it. I got to meet J. from my yahoo and RQ group...It's always so nice to put a face to someone that you chat with on line. J and her husband are LID the same time as me and Michael and we will definitely travel together to China.

Michael is so supportive of me and was coming to the meeting, but I let him get out of it at the last minute...he is so crazy busy and is traveling this weekend and I felt bad making him come with me...I really couldn't ask for a better man to support me especially in this crazy adoption journey--I love you Michael!

Michael is the type of person who will get more involved once our referral date gets closer...he is a here and now kind of guy and with the current wait being 25 month and getting longer we still have a ways to go before the here and now.

I think that I'm going to have to make it a point to go back to the meetings. I really want to meet other interracial families so that our daughter can see that she is not alone and her adoption story is quite similar to other children.