Saturday, May 16, 2009

Sickened by the flu

We've said this process couldn't get any slower. Well, we didn't anticipate a bug, named after a pig, named after a something no one recognizes because the pig felt wrongly accused. Hmpf. I can relate to the piggy! CCAA has suspended referrals and has limited travel for waiting families. While the organization has not admitted to flu paranoia, it seems to be the logical explanation. We are still hopeful that matching is happening although we don't have any confirmation of that since CCAA is not releasing any referrals. What does all of this mean? We could see even more delays or we could simply hear nothing for a long time, then see large numbers of referrals all at once. Either way, we probably won't know anything for a while. More importantly, our hearts go out to those families that received their referral and are now told they have to wait to bring their baby home. Please keep the waiting families and the waiting children in your thoughts! Peace.
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We will use this blog to share news as we move one step closer to Baby Rock each day.

For those who need a bit of background...
We decided to adopt a baby from China in September/October of 2005. After completing mountains of paperwork, background checks, fingerprinting, etc. (collectively called the dossier), we were officially on China's waiting list on April 14th, 2006. This moment of acceptance is called the log-in date (LID). This date is quite significant because families are matched with children according to LID. If you follow referral dates (the date a waiting child is matched with a waiting family), you will be able to see how close we are to being matched--at least in theory. When we started the process three and a half years ago, China was matching month for month, meaning one month of LIDs were taking one month to match. Now, unfortunately, one month of LIDs is taking about four months or more. So...we wait...we vent...we cry...we breathe...we hope...we believe.

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