The Referral Clock

It has been a while since we posted an adoption-related post because all has been fairly quiet on the adoption front.  We have simply been waiting and praying.

Our agency doesn't share a "waiting list" with families as many agencies do, but they do have a referral clock which shows when the families who are currently receiving referrals were document ready.  We were document ready in August 2009 and have been waiting to see the face our sweet little one since then.  For the past few months, our agency has been providing referrals to families who were ready in June 2009.  Time seemed to literally be standing still on the referral clock as they worked their way through a record number of dossiers.  We got an email today saying that the referral clock had moved.  While we were expecting that the clock would have moved to July, we were thrilled to see that it had moved to August.  While we still don't know for sure how long we will wait for our referral, we are celebrating this small, but encouraging sign of progress!