All Sweetness

Oh wow, China has referred 7 days! Up to November 14, 2005. This moves us closer. All in God's time you know. He is preparing us for our challenges ahead. Hmmm looking a calendar it only means we have 2 plus more years of waiting. Oh we can handle it. I can spend time shopping for the baby -- although I have no idea it will be a boy or girl or what size to buy for but I'm going to spend all my money on pink! We will wait until 3, 4, 5 years with a great big smile on our face.

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the previous post was my spin on trying to be positive and after I ate two bowls of corn pops to try to put all the sweetness in the post.

I don't get it, why are people paperchasing China? I just want to scream -- people wake up and smell the coffee --- it will be 3 plus years until you see anything from China.

May is out of Review..

This means we a few months closer to at least be reviewed. What does review mean -- China will finally look at our documents, which have been sitting since 9/11/06 in their office. They will give the yeah or nay to them.

I don't think we will be questioned but with China you can never know.

Also -- rumor has it (well it is probably more than rumor) -- that they have sent more referrals....7 days...big whoop.

Jen

Happy 9th Month! Also Happy Birthday to my little girl, Emily!

Gee I almost forgot. This is a day late. Oh well.

Also Happy Birthday to my sweet baby Emily who turned 7 today! Emily told me today even though she is now a big kid, she will always be my baby!

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I guess it is time for an update. Well CCAA has matched a whopping 6 more days. Bringing us to 11/7/05. With this rate I hate to say it but it looks like the we are hitting the end of June 2009. Yes I repeat 2009. I'm not ready to believe in that year. Alot can happen. At this point I'm still hoping for a referral by Christmas 2008.

My heart is telling me that we will be matched with a waiting child. We turned in a checklist in mid April. I think we will hopefully see a referral through this program maybe by end of this year/early next year. Please keep in mind, they may have us look at a file -- it doesn't mean we will accept it. Bill is open to a special needs child but he is very cautious about what we will accept. If we don't accept the referral, our place is still in line for the non-special needs program.

We have been seeing referrals of some very young babies -- 6-8 months old at time of travel. We would like as young as possible so it is very tempting for us to stay just in the non special needs category and just stick it out.

It is very hard to wait. I try to remain optimistic and on most days can. It is just hard to wrap my mind around that fact that we could be waiting until 2009. A lot can change in all of these years of waiting. I'm not even sure by then we would want another child. Emily would be 9 by then. How I wish (1) my body would produce another child -- not happening (2) we started this Chinese adoption so much sooner rather than wasting our time and money on infertility treatments. 2 freaking years down the tube. oh well cannot change the past.

That's it for now. I will try to be better about posting updates.

Jen

Welcome Home Emme Lu and family!

One our ALTs is coming home today with Emme Lu a.k.a The Bee.

I have been following their blog -- http://myadoptionwebsite.com/emmelu/index.html

She is such a beautiful baby and they have had such a wonderful experience! They went to her finding place and met the woman who found the little Bee!

Welcome Home!!

Jen

Some Analysis....

Ok I'm not the Rumor Queen but someone from that forum posted that they saw a pattern of referrals. Meaning give or take a couple of days if you look at October referral period, they referred 19 days. In 2006 for the late Sept/Oct referral period they referred 18 days. On average they are sticking with a 12 day referral. You need to look at this over a year's worth of time. That said, I created a spreadsheet so I can see where I fall.

So here goes....Here is the chart showing the pattern, I repeated the days starting with Sept/Oct of 2006.

So even if they change the number of days referred each time but stick on average to 12 days... Not good..... End of June 2009. Remember my LID is 9/11/06

Now if they kicked it up a notch and on average referred up to 15 days. Give or take we would receive a referral in late Jan 2009.

If they kicked it up even futher and start on average to do 18 days of referrals. Keep in mind, this is an average. We would get a referral in late Oct/Nov of 2008 -- ahhh so much better.

That's all I have with the analysis. Probably the same as Rumor Queen but I need it spelled out in a spreadsheet. When the next referral comes in, all I have to do is plug in the number of days and see where my highlighted area is.

Who knows if this is right or wrong but heck it is something eh?

Jen

8 Months of Waiting

8 months down.....how many more is anyone's guess. I am happy to report that I'm in a better place about the wait.

Yes the wait sucks, stinks, rots etc.

But this month I have not been fixated on it. So that is good. Hubby is breathing a sigh of relief too.

Next month who know but this month, my stress level over the wait is down to nothing!

my big girl!

Emily is so looking forward to being a big sister. Time doesn't seem to move fast for her (or me for that fact!).

Emmy is getting to be such a girl....I cannot say little anymore. We have dance recital in June and here is picture of her.

I love you!