Chiquitines Orphanage, Cali, Colombia

We're in New York City, in Manhattan. Which opens up a whole other can of worms, apparently, because there are steps that the City of New York requires you to do that other families in our agency who live in, say, Westchester County or Upstate, don't have to go through. My husband went to college in Clinton, New York, near Utica, and Syracuse was where we went when we craved "city life." Now he's a teacher who assigns a social studies project each year to his fourth-graders on upstate NY cities, like Buffalo, Albany, and Syracuse. Hope you guys are surviving the winter alright (it hasn't been much better down here!) How long did your agency tell you to expect to wait for a referral?