On the Adoption front.

For those people who read the ONE house adventures that are in the adoption community, this post is not for you...Boring things you have been reading on every post. Go directly to searching for the referrals coming in. I will be soon, too!

For everyone else. This box here is from China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA). Once a month (usually at the end) they send out referrals, pictures and info of the children to their adopted families. Before they do this they have a site that is updated with the progress of the dates they are finished in the review room (here it is October 31, 2005). And even better the dates that the referrals will go to for LID's (Logged in Dates). In May the referrals were for families LID June 7 through June 15, 2005 (9 days). And now in June it runs through June 28, 2005. Just to confuse you more with numbers Aprils referrals included May 31st through June 6th. (7 days)

If you'd like a great table. Click on the one to the right taken from "Do They Have Salsa In China" Even though I really don't know Mary-Mia....seems as if everyone in the China adoption community knows her. Her blog is one of the best and her rumor alerts are usually upbeat and encouraging!

Our LID is APRIL 12th, 2006! Ponder this...Do some math...It is going to be some time before OUR turn comes around.

It was rumored JUNE was a HUGE month. CCAA send referrals by the numbers they have each time. The timeline is still supposed to be 12 months. CCAA is really trying to keep the wait at 12 months. They will have to pick things up a bit to keep it at 12 months. I keep saying 12 months. I also keep forgetting I have been waiting 2 months! If we did receive our picture of Kate next April (12 months from our LID) we would most likely travel one year from now in June of 2007. It takes about 6-8 weekks for Travel Approval (TA).

On a lighter note. There is a family in CHINA right now from our agency that you can check out on one of the most famous CHINA adoption sites THESTORYOFYOU. Peyton Ruby is so cute and you just have to click here to see it for yourself!

I am not going to sit here an analize June dates. I have to make it through July, August, September, October, November, December.....I will then see what credibility the numbers have in my favor. Instead, I am going to search for all the cute faces that families will be receiving in the next few days and wait my TURN in HIS timing!