[jennandsteve]

We went through almost the same thing 2 years ago waiting for our daughter. It was terrible. But we did keep the tree up (the needles were almost all gone) and we did have Christmas once she was home in January. Now that is all just a very faint bad memory and we are so excited to be celebrating our second Christmas with her and our first with our son.

I know this prob doesn't help, but it really is true. Once he is home you will forget how bad this is very quickly.

One thing that helped me think about this in a postive way is, I know Sophia's Foster Mom and Foster brother loved her so much. They only had that one time to celebrate Christmas with Sophia and we will, God willing, have years and years of wonderful Christmases so I looked at it as a special gift for them and her. We have some pics of her at her first Christmas with her Foster Family and we look at them and talk about how wonderful they were and how much they love her.

Hang in there. It looks like from your time line maybe you will hear you are out any day and that will make Christmas much better. We heard a 2 years ago tomorrow that we were out and that made Christmas much more fun.

Jenn