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Amy -
You know, its a catch-22. If people don't ask they feel like they are not addressing how very important this is. Like they do not care. But they feel awkward asking all the time after awhile because they figure since you havent mentioned anything there is no news.
I just always tried to stay positive to the people who asked, figuring they were trying to be kind and stay involved. I would say "Its a long process, we hope we'll be a family this year! No news yet!"
I also put together an email list of people so that when we got the call and accepted our referrals we could let them know we were going to be traveling. I did this because at the time there were a lot of people traveling with so little notice.
In the end we had 9 days from getting our referrals to traveling for trip one. Thank goodness I put that database together! And letting people know they were on the "list" to be notified made them feel included.

I know the wait is hard. I am sorry its been so long for you! I hope you get good news soon!

Christina