I have made a promise to myself that I would try to add a post every day during the rest of the wait for our referral. That had been easy until today when I am reading posts about the expected wait time going to 3 years and am more than a little bummed today. In my heart I do not believe that it will get this extreme, but it is also very easy to fall into the pack and believe all of the speculation.
My belief is that once we get through the end of '05 things will be better as the months in '06 seem to have fewer people waiting in them. I am also holding out hope that more babies will be made available because I believe that China wants it's program to "fly under the radar".
Too many people complaining about the wait time brings them into the spotlight just as quickly as sending too many babies out of the country. So I have hope that we will see the wait extend a little more, and then settle back into a more even pattern.
Does this mean the wait will drop back to 9 months?
No, but hopefully it will stabilize at 20 - 24 months.
Hopefully tomorrow I will have something to write other than another complaint about having to wait for so long.
