36!!!!!

We received the the long awaited email with our wait list number today. We have been hearing horror stories about Ethiopia, like people being put on lists at #115 or people waiting for 10 months and then only being at #60. I was content that whatever number we were given was meant to be, but I really wanted to see double digits!

Lance and I were at lunch and I had my phone laying on the table next to me. I saw that I had an email and opened it to see it titled "Agan updated wait list". I jumped and then was almost afraid to open it! I knew my heart would either sink or I would be really happy!

So, I opened it and and yelled out THIRTY SIX!! Most everyone sitting around me turned and stared at me. I then loudly read the entire email verbatim to Lance and then more people were staring at me hehe!

I was thinking today that once we get our baby home, that means that 35 other babies have gone home to their new families ahead of us. It makes me SO happy that so many children are becoming part of a family!

I am also counting my blessings that God chose to give us a relatively low number. Things can still happen to slow us down, and in adoption its not a matter of "if" but"when", but we are going to enjoy today and this big step forward! We were told 6-8 months to be matched now so I am praying hard for us to have her picture by summer. Then the real fun can begin! :)

People keep saying to me, "it's like you are pregnant" and until now I just couldn't go there because things were so unknown! But now I am there. It is like I'm pregnant! Whoo hoo!!