Happy 6 month LID and ramblings

Happy 6 month LID ( a couple of days late)

This time last year, Bill and I decided to adopt from China. We signed up with our agency a year ago. How naive I was. I remember stating -- oh we will be in China by Oct 2007. That's because they quotes us a 12-14 month wait. But I didn't realize that in the previous months that they only were referring 5 days of LID. That was never told to us. Of course, we were told international adoption has no guarentees when it comes to the wait. Well, I never thought it would be a 24-30 month wait for us. (heck it could be longer). If they refer 15 days each referral period, one calculator gives us a referral on 12/28/2008. Last month they did not refer 15 days.

So with the wait comes looking at our other options. We have looked at switching countries to either Vietnam or Ethiopia. For us, a dual adoption is not possible. Unless we get referred twins, we are only planning adding one more child to our family. Financially we couldn't afford to do China and another country. Looking at Vietnam, it is too expensive. We would loose half our China plus with the Vietnam expenses it was over our budget. Ethiopia looks interesting. I have sent for some information.

After talking with Bill, it looks like we will probably stick with China. Unless things get totally out of hand (isn't a 2 year wait out of hand?), maybe Ethiopia. Bill wants to stick it out with China.