January 1, 2009 Is This the Year???

Happy New Year!!!

It has been a long time since I last posted to our blog; primarily because the wait had become too painful to continually focus our attention on so we decided to work on other areas in our lives while we waited. I have returned to school to complete my degree and will be graduating in May and we have been working on projects around the house to prepare for Jadyn's arrival. This past year has also been a time of healing as my dad passed away in June and it took us all by surprise. We miss him terribly and are saddened that he will not have the opportunity to meet Jadyn. However, we believe he will certainly know who our little one is, possibly even before we do.

We are excited that my mom will now be traveling to China with us; she is very excited to be there when we meet our daughter and her granddaughter for the first time. She has been very excited about our adoption from the start and is looking forward to taking in some of the culture from her granddaughter's homeland.

The most recent referrals went through February 28, 2006 which leaves 35 LID's until they reach our date of April 4, 2006. This could take as little as 6 months or as many as 12 more months to get through depending upon how many days are referred each month. Hopefully, there will be one more batch prior to CCAA breaking for the Chinese New Year Holiday and that will help to see how the upcoming months will go. March 2006 is a very large month; however, there has apparently been some attrition due to the extended wait times, as well as, people switching to special needs adoptions. None of this necessarily means any speed up in referrals; only the coming months will tell how many more months we have to wait, but we are hopeful that 2009 will be our year!