March Numbers

#70 on the girl’s list (last month #76)

#57 on the boy’s list (last month #61)

#23 on the sibling’s list (last month #26)


March marks nine months on the waitlist. The significance of 9 months has not escaped me. There is no due date in sight. However, we knew this was going to be a long haul when we signed up and so the waiting has not been bad. Something has shifted in my thinking this month though. Maybe I am allowing myself to think a little bit more about the realness of our next child. Something just feels different.

This little shift makes me wonder if there might be something significant going on in Ethiopia this month. Something significant in the life of the child who will one day be our son or daughter. Some would call it superstition, but I have come to know adoption well enough to think twice and pay attention to little feelings, little promptings, little signs. I've also come to know adoption well enough to realize this would also mean there is pain which then burdens me to pray.

Bear seems to be feeling more ready too. He told me this week that Almaz called him on his cell phone all the way from Hannah's Hope in Ethiopia to tell him about baby sister. Then he yelled "woo hoo" and jumped in my arms for a celebration. The weight of waiting is greatly lifted from us this time by our Bear. This fact too has not escaped me.