Referrals

Well, it seems that the referrals did come but they only referred 2 (yes two!) days. This is the Hot News from our agency:

January 29, 2009

We recently received referrals for a few families that had recently come off of "hold" status. We did not receive referrals for our next LID group. The CCAA online system has not been updated yet; however, it appears as though referrals went through March 2, 2006. This makes the current wait time approximately 35 months.

I know that China was getting ready for their big holiday so this may be why the referrals was so small. Also the fact that they haven't changed their "box" to reflect the referrals may be due to the holiday as well. I am getting really down about the referrals but I am in it for the long haul. I believe that God has our baby already hand picked for us. Patience and faith...faith and patience, we are walking hand in hand with God on this....Kara, I know you are out there...we are coming for you, baby!

It's a New Year

Well, the new year has come and we are already working our way through January. This is a tough month for my family...last year at this time we found out that my Mom had cancer. Three weeks later she went to be with her Lord and Savior. It was difficult to lose her so quickly but knowing that she did not suffer long, we are thankful and we praise God for taking her home. We take comfort in knowing that one day we will have a great big reunion when we all see heaven. Please just keep my Dad in your prayers...while he is doing good, I know that he misses Mom so much and this time has been especially hard on him.

Not much new on the adoption at this time. Just waiting on referrals as usual. The CCAA will be taking off for their Chinese New Year so we may see the referrals earlier than the norm. Soon as I hear something, I will be back on here. Take care everyone!

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.

New Puppy

This is our new puppy, Cheyenne. She is a yellow lab, and is 6 weeks old. I think this is good practice for having a baby. She had us up every two hours the first 2 nights that we had her. Now I am getting up at 5:00am because she is crying and ready to go out. Tony seems to think a baby will be easier....I am not so sure!

November Referrals

This is all I have this month....This is from our adoption agency.

Program updates
The CCAA just issued referrals for families with LIDs of February 16-
17, 2006; since our next group of LIDs is February 24, 2006, we did
not receive referrals this time. This makes the wait time up to 33
months from LID to referral. We hope to have referrals in December
for the 2/24/06 LID group and after that our next group of LIDs would
be 3/6/06.


As you can see from the previous posts, the last LID referred was Feb.15th. Two days! That is all the referrals for this month! I am going to say it! This REALLY sucks!