Monday, November 8, 2010

New November Number!!

On Friday afternoon, we received an email from our case worker with our new number for November...


# 74!!! Yep, we are now officially on the AGCI girl waitlist at #74! And I love it because we know that we are really at #73 (unofficially) because there has already been another girl referral! YAY!!

Our agency has a listserv where lots of the families in the Ethiopia adoption program communicate with each other. It's such an encouraging and supportive group of families! And lots of families will post when they get their referral, so we get to rejoice with them...and keep track of our "unofficial" number!

So, everytime a family on the girl list gets a referral, we move down a spot! This has been so much fun to keep up with! All of our kids know that we are now #73, and they talk about it all the time! :) We have moved 20 spots since we got on the waitlist on September 17th...LOVE IT!!

And we LOVE that so many orphans are being placed in wonderful families...and that we are moving closer to our precious Caroline Faith!! A great reason to REJOICE!!

"But you, O God, are my king from of old; You bring salvation upon the earth." Psalm 74:12

19 comments:

Sarah Broadus said...

YAH!!! Can't wait to see that sweet little face!

Joshua and Hilary said...

LOVE this! It's a blessing to count down with you friend!

Christy said...

yaaaaaaaaaay! How exciting that it's moving quickly! Praise the Lord! I'm predicting the end of spring or beginning of summer for you! :)

Maggie Ethridge said...

So excited that these babies are making their way out of the orphanage into their HOMES!! It's wonderful to watch the Lord work!

erica said...

Wow! 20 spots since September - so awesome! Love all this movement, and hope it continues! Blessings!

The Mulder Family said...

WOW how exciting...praising God right with your that these little joys are being placed with their forever families as you move up to welcoming Caroline Faith home!!

Shannon said...

Yay! So happy for the new number!

Anonymous said...

What joyous news! Your family will have a very meaningful Thanksgiving this year! I know when we celebrated the holidays while we were in the wait mode of our adoptions, it was so much fun to think: This is THE LAST Thanksgiving, THE LAST Christmas, THE LAST Easter, etc. that our little bundle of joy had to experience without a family!
Gives me goose bumps to think about it.

Janet said...

We are loving all this movement!!! I don't know about you, but I'm totally attached to the unofficial list! Great that we're so close to you all. : )

Bonnie Nieuwstraten said...

Celebrating with you!! I remember that joy of getting a new number - it's an awesome feeling!!

Kelly Jo said...

Love getting new numbers!! We are cruising down that list!! So exciting!!

meurrier said...

Woohoo!!!! She will be here before you know it!!

Kelli said...

YEA!!!!!!!!!

Mama Mimi said...

Yay!!!! That much closer ;)
Thank you for always being such an amazing encouragement to me...you are a GEM!

meredith and justin said...

So Exciting! I am hoping we will get a number this month =)

Ang said...

WOW! You are moving right along..So exciting : )!!!

Hannah said...

MOVING!!! Yay!!

It's moving right along :)

Jed and Amanda said...

It does seem to be going fast, doesn't it? I can't believe how fast you moved 20 spots!

Unknown said...

Yahoooooooooooooooo! CELEBRATING your new number with you! Celebrating the AMAZING month of October and ALL of the referrals! WOW! Soooo excited for each little one to be in their Mommy and Daddy's arms! ♥