Still waiting

Whoever said no news is good news has obviously never been through the adoption process. We are still waiting for our CIS date. They received our home study exactly 1 month ago today so we hope and pray that our appointment is scheduled soon. I also know people say the more you have to wait the more you learn patience. However I don't buy that! I have very little patience and have had lots of waiting to do in life and my patience has become worse or stayed the same if anything! Now whoever said patience is a virtue - they knew what they were talking about. That is a quote I can agree with.

Speaking of waiting- the kids in the Bright Futures camp (http://www.brightfuturescamp.com/) are really cute! If you haven't checked out the page you should do so. There are pictures, bios, etc. I really hope that all of these children are able to find homes. We would like to adopt an older child from Ethiopia at some point. We would really like for our baby to have a brother or sister from the same country and we know how slim the possibility is for older children to be adopted. I think I read somewhere that if every married couple in the US adopted 1 older child from Ethiopia there would still be several hundred that would need to be adopted. Of course don't quote me on that or anything b/c I am not sure if that was exactly how that statistic read-ovbiously the point is that there are so many older children that need to be adopted and so few willing/able to adopt older children. I know my sister-in-law has enjoyed her child that she adopted from Ethiopia through this program last year. She recently wrote a letter and I think the thing that stood out to me that she wrote was that they really thought that they were going to miss out on a lot of "firsts" adopting an older child. On the contrary they have got to experience so much. The first correct phrase in English, the first time he rode a bike, his first prayer in English, etc. Although he is older he had so many changes and had missed out on so many little things that often there have been mile markers that are similar to going through the steps with a baby.