Surprise!

Today marks the 2 year anniversary of our LID! Two years ago today our paperwork was logged into China! At that time we thought that in about12-13 months we would be parents! How exciting! But as time raced on, the wait time started to become longer, then longer, then even longer. This is something that we definitely don't understand and to try to explain it is even more difficult. In the meantime, alot has happened. We have had some tradegy in our lives (the passing of my dear mother into a better place), we have felt the joy of our nephews becoming Dads, we have tried to be a substitute parent for an exchange student and we have gained another addition to our family (Cheyenne). Life goes on....but as we continue to wait, we do know that our God has that perfect little one already picked out for us, we know that He will help us to be patient as we wait on his timing and we know that He does love us. On that being said, here is the surprise:

December 29, 2008

Referral and dossier review update:

Through the CCAA's on-line site for adoption agencies, we received the following update regarding the review of dossiers and placement of children:

The CCAA has finished the review of the adoption application documents registered with our office before February 28, 2007.

The CCAA has finished the placement of children for the families whose adoption application documents were registered with our office before February 28, 2006.


Yes! We have referrals for January! The last batch of referrals came out December 10th so this is a nice surprise. Actually, I think that there is a holiday coming up soon in China and they worked hard to get the referrals out before the holiday. Wish this was the case every month! Anyhow, again the time between the LIDS was only 5 days again....that is still disheartening.

Please continue keep us in your prayers. It sure does help!

Official Rumor

The rumor is true. Here is the Hot News from our agency:

December 10, 2008

Referral and dossier review update:

Through the CCAA's online site for adoption agencies, we received the following update regarding the review of dossiers and placement of children:

Document Processing

The CCAA has finished the review of the adoption application documents registered with our office before February 28, 2007.

The CCAA has finished the placement of children for the families whose adoption application documents were registered with our office before February 23, 2006.

So, it looks like another month of 5 days of referral....we are praying and praying that our day will come!

Referrals

It is already December 9th and there are no referrals that have been sent out for this month. I have seen a rumor that the cut off date is Feb. 23rd. With last months referral cut off of Feb. 17th is seems that they are still working at a snail's pace. The latest piece of news that I can report is that the orphanage fee has gone up from $3000 to $5100. I definitely understand this....the orphanage fee has not changed since 1995. Plus I am hoping that this in an incentive for the orphanages to work a little faster to get babies paper ready for international adoption. Please pray for all those littles ones waiting to get a forever family and for the process to speed up.