I've not had much to say lately.....well, much to say on the adoption blog home front anyway! I was right about the holidays keeping us busy and not dwelling too much on the waiting game. BUT, now that Christmas is over....ack!  I've made somewhat of a "bucket list" for 2012, which you can see over here on my "regular blog"!  One of them was to make sure that I blog better in 2012.  Hoping I can check that off my bucket list on Dec 31 this year!
I had pretty much convinced myself that this would be the last Christmas that I would be baby-less. We'll see I guess. We received an email from our caseworker yesterday with a new year form, similar to one we've signed already...pretty much just agency policies and procedures.  I was shocked when I read this one that said the average wait from turning in profiles to placement was 18 months**.  EIGHTEEN MONTHS?!?!  For some reason, I've been telling myself the average was 6-9 months.  Not sure where I even got that thought at, but anyway.  I was pretty heart broken for a little bit, but I have to remember not to dwell on the waiting.  We never know when it will be and I will just make myself crazy thinking about it.  **Part of that esitmation included an adoption that took 62 months.  I'm hoping that the estimate was high mostly because of that. 

We had a wonderful Christmas with lots of parties and food and presents!  Uh, did I just say presents?  Yes I did.  Ahem.  I will never complain about having to visit so many places for the holidays because I feel so blessed to have so many celebrations (not for the presents)!  Grace had such a good time and loved getting to see all of her cousins that we don't get to see all of the time.  She fared pretty well this year scoring a laptop from Santa and almost everything else  that she asked for.  She is growing up so fast, I'm afraid we are nearing the end of the Santa believing, though she hasn't given any sign of non-believing just yet!

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas as well filled with everything you love!   Here's to hoping next year we'll have an extra Santa hat in our Christmas card picture!