September Referrals

Well, this month they managed to get through 18 days worth of LID's. They matched July 23 - August 9th. Double the number of days matched last month, but probably not a great improvement in the actual number of referrals given out.

If they are able to keep at this pace (# of days referred at a time) we will get our referral in March 2007. Our LID is now 101 days out from the last date matched, August 9, 2005. In order to get our referral this year they would have to match 34 days of referrals for the next 3 months.

The CCAA is saying nothing and the agencies know nothing and so we (all of us waiting to adopt) just try to go on each day hoping someday it really will be our turn.

Finally Out of review

I can't believe I have not posted for a whole month. Sorry. I have been preoccupied with school starting and with being bummed about the wait.

The good news is that we are finally listed on the CCAA website as being out of review. What does this mean? Well not too much really, except that they have reviewed our dossier and that our file will now be moved on to the next step which is matching us with a child. Unfortunately we are at the bottom of a huge heap O' files.


On August 25 or so, they sent out referrals to those with LID's of July 14 - July 22, 2005. Again we are Nov. 18, 2005 so you can see how far away we still are.

Over the last year, they have only averaged 12.33333 days of referrals per month and at this rate we will not see our referral until June 2007. Needless to say we are praying and hoping for things to speed up. Either way we are in this for the long haul, our baby girl is in China.

On a lighter note, the Nursery/Guest bedroom is basically finished and I just have not had the heart to post pictures yet. I guess with the slow down and other bad rumors, I have been guarding my heart. I will show some pictures soon.