Sunday, March 22, 2009

35 Months LID

We've now been logged in for referral from China for 35 months. There are still hopes coming from agencies that things will pick up later this year and time will tell. We are still in limbo with our concurrent adoption and are dreading the decision we will have to make soon.

One milestone that was just reached yesterday - I belong to a small online China adoption group and had opportunity to meet several of them in person - of the ones that I have met in person I am officially the last to receive referral. It has been fantastic watching these wonderful people meet their children and it has truly helped me cope with this wait.

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

March Stork Alert

March referrals are here and they cover LIDs March 3 through March 6, 2006.  That leaves 45 days until our LID of 4/20/06.  The rate of referrals over the past year is about 5 LIDs per month (the only stat we have to work with).  If this rate remains unchanged then we can expect referral in January 2010.  Since we've been logged in, this rate has been on a steady decline.  

Congratulations to all of the families seeing their child's face for the first time!