Adoption not for the weak!

Well, I had hoped that I would have some amazing news this month to share, but no such luck! I have to remind myself, His timing, not mine. But its hard sometimes to be patient and know that God is in control and there are so many waiting families that have waited so much longer than we have. The adoption world has changed so much just in the past two years since we began our journey to adopt Mya. Taiwan has changed so much just in the past few months with families not qualifying any longer, and there was a moment where we thought we would not "fit" the program either. They have changed the size of family qualification and if we would have wanted a healthy baby girl, it probably would be impossible since we have 3 kids already. But since we are asking for an older child, all is good!!! But I know families through adoption yahoo groups that have been turned away after waiting, hoping and paying lots of $$$$. It is sad and very frustrating!

But we are very close to being matched and for some reason, I just have this "intuition", this feeling, about June. I think its going to be our month!!!! OK, call me crazy or wishful thinking!!!

We do have another dilemma and I need all your help on this one!!! It's our new daughter's name. You see a few months ago, we agreed on the name Delanie. Which I absolutely love! I should said me and the kids agreed on the name Delanie, but Chad wasn't thrilled with it, but he agreed. When we were talking names we each came up with our favorites and Chad's pick was "Mariah", and there is a history with this name. We have two daughters named Marissa and Mya. There is not a day that goes by that I or Chad or really anybody that is around my girls that call them by name, accidentally combined their names and say Mariah. Trust me, I do it all day long!! Not to mention that it has all parts of our names in it: It has Mar, for Mary, it has Mari, for Marissa, it sounds like Mya, it has Ri, for Ryan and it even has a little "h" on the end for C"h"ad! So my husband says to me the other day, "Mary I don't really like the name Delanie". I know he doesn't want to hurt my feelings and knows how much I like the name, but I know how excited he gets when he says the name Mariah and the little "coincidences" behind all of our names. I know it sound corny, but I don't know what to do? So I need your help. I need you to vote on it!!!! Should there be a family of six named: Chad, Mary, Ryan, Marissa, Mariah & Mya or Chad, Mary, Ryan, Marissa, Delanie & Mya????? There is a voting poll at the top of the blog that you can vote on our daughter's name! Or, if you know of an adorable name that you just love, leave it in the comments!!!