5 months

My Lilypie ticker says we have been waiting 5 months for a referral. I feel like it has been five years! It looks like we will be swallowed by the whale if we have to wait 8 months. I wonder if we will be spit back onto land (like Jonah) after God has refined us in the waiting process??? My hope is that if we are indeed, swallowed by that whale, he will spit us out after three days and the pictures of our beautiful children will be waiting on the sandy beach.