We've done quite a bit of waiting over the last five years. There may have been mountains of paperwork to climb, but the majority of time was spent in the valleys of seemingly endless wait.
Currently, I am perched on a mound of paperwork, and the view from here is fantastic.
When we began this journey in March 2007, we were told by our then-agency to expect a two year wait. Silly us, we believed them. We were yet to be parents (we had planned for the adopted child{ren} to be our first), so it would have seemed more logical for us to choose a country with a faster program. However, the wait actually sounded like a perfect time frame to us, since I was still in grad school.
Soon after we began, things in the Colombian adoption world slowed. Actually, before we sent our dossier to Colombia, we knew that the wait had grown. by the time we got our approval from Colombia and entered the then-to-be-believed three to four year wait, we were pregnant with Caroline. What a blessing she has been.
Around Caroline's first birthday, we decided to adopt two.
A year later, we were told that siblings was an impossibility, and began dreaming again about our Colombian son or daughter.
More of the story to follow...
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