I'll go first.
We've been waiting for a domestic AA placement since August of last year. Our paperwork is expiring next month so we're working on our update. Ick. We signed with an agency in OH, then signed with a referral agency also in OH in May after very little movement with the agency. It's been hard. We've waivered about updating the homestudy, thinking that heck, no one likes us. Yet here we are, knee deep in paperwork again.
Our first was born in Ethiopia. There's no popularity contest there. You get approval from both governments then wait for referral. There's no waiting to see who likes you, and in that way international is so much easier! I've had hard days of wondering why no one likes us and thinking that all you ever hear about is that AA babies are so hard to place, etc...yet here we are. We have a budget of about 15K, so it should be do able.
It just sucks sometimes. Some days I'm fine. Some days I'm an all out train wreck. Some days I think one kid is fine if no one likes us! I know (and I've said) all that feel-good talk about how "the right baby will find you" etc, and I know it's true...but this is HARD!