Review ~ April is OUT!

Finally, April is out of review!

Everything seems to have slowed down, even the review room. Can you imagine, being in this adoption process & getting thrown out by the review room after a year of waiting already? Does this make any sense?

Jumping back on that tiny little thread that I am hanging onto . . . there it is . . . that red thread of hope, desperation and dreams.

14 months LID

We have been logged in with China for 14 months. We thought we would be home by now, but it looks like we are going to be posting # pictures for many more months to come. So depressing.

Something Changed & not for the better!

What changed? That would be our forecast from China Adopt Forecast!

"Our best guess - a weighted average of recent CCAA velocities, guessing that CCAA will perform about as well in the future as they are performing now, but might return to previous trends: 2008-05-26"

My guess is that our referral from China will come August of 2008, which would put travel at October 2008.

Referrals were sent out and the CCAA matched up to November 7 of 2005!

Congratulations to all families that received referrals! They waited 19 agonizing months for a referral!

Still no update in the review room. The last update on the review room was at the beginning of March, so there has been no update for 3 months. Our agency has stated that April is out of review but I would like a little proof of that from CCAA. The review room has gotten just as slow as referrals. Which will make families have to redo documents b/c by the time CCAA reviews them, they are expired or about to be expired. So right now, there is no good news with China. Things have changed but not for the better.

Our secret pal sent us a great gift of CD's! We love them and plan to download them to our laptop so that we can play them at bedtime while we are in China. She sent "Bedtime with the Beatles" and "Chinese Lullabies". Thank you Secret Pal! You help to make the months go by faster and it is great to get surprise goodies in the mail!