Referrals!

The stork has landed and the next batch of referrals are here! Those lucky families with LIDs of 1/5/2006 - 1/9/2006 are getting word and pictures of their new sons and daughters. I know our day will come but with a LID of 2/27/2006, it's likely that it won't be until late this year. They seem to only be matching 5 or 6 days a month. It could actually be 3 full years from our LID before we meet our baby. A far cry from the mere 7 months we waited for Elizabeth.

Someone was asking me today about adopting from China and I told them at this point, unless their heart was telling them their child is in China, they'd likely be better off looking elsewhere if they didn't want to wait 4-5 years (NSN). Reviewing CCAA's new rules, waiting times and cost schedules (they've raised the orphanage fee from $3000 to $5000, we'll likely have to renew all of our documents for a 3rd time, and the rising cost of airline tickets presumably secondary to fuel prices, etc.), it's going be much harder for the average bear to adopt from China. Sad but true ...