Sad story

This whole journey has been filled with many ups and downs. The littlest things can make or break our days. I've done so well with being patient up until this point. Now, I struggle. I know patience is the lesson that is being taught here. I called to see if I could check on the status of our fingerprints. When we sent these in, our agency had told us that adoption takes priority. The other couple working with our case worker got theirs back in 6 weeks. I thought it had been 7 weeks, but it WILL be 7 the beginning of next week. We have been hopefully checking the mail day after day thinking it could be any day. Well--the news I got today on the phone was VERY disappointing. She said they don't even get put into the system until 10 weeks into the process. Sad! Here we have been waiting for them to come in the mail and we have 3 more weeks before we will even be in the system. What a blow!! It is disheartening. I know that everything happens for a reason. I know that all of this is part of God's plan. However...it still makes me sad. I thought we were so close to being able to get on the wait list. Instead...we wait longer. The process of international adoption is either paperwork or waiting. I know in the end it will be well worth it. Now it just seems so far away.