I hope that you have enjoyed this series on surviving the wait. As I said when I introduced the series, waiting for my child was the most difficult part of becoming a parent for me. I would rather do 10 home studies than have to sit by the phone doing nothing but waiting for 17 months. Waiting was excruciating for me, which is why I have devoted so much time to discussing this topic.

Please let me know if there is another aspect of waiting that you would like to read about in a future blog. We will return to the topic of surviving Mother’s Day in early May. I remember how painful that time of year was for me, so I will put together a series specifically devoted to that topic. That would be a good time to talk about additional issues surrounding the waiting period.

For another blog on surviving the wait, check out Hate the Wait on the Kazakhstan blog.

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The phone call telling me that we had been matched with a placing mother came out of nowhere. I had just about given up on ever hearing anything, and then we were chosen – just like that. I experienced the saying, “It is always darkest before the dawn.” During those final months of waiting, I became very depressed. My life seemed very dark. And then, with one “out of the blue” phone call, a brilliant sunrise emerged. Overnight, I went from a waiting depressed “momwannabe” to an “expectant mother.” Your day will come, too, and when it does, this wait time will have all been worth it.

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A reader suggested the topic for the next blog. She has a question that arose out of the Positive Adoption Language" series.

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What topics would you like to read about? Please leave me a comment or e-mail me at hopetoadoptblogger@adoptionmail.com to make a suggestion.