Waiting 4 Baby Rock: December 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year!

Tiny hearts--that’s what we made to celebrate the end of a decade. Chinese dim sum, small appetizer "hearts", a practice run for a future tradition, the very act nodded to our unspoken chatter... Yet, for an afternoon of preparation and an evening of indulgence, we didn’t think about the challenges of 2009; we didn’t send hopeful wishes to the universe for 2010. For one day, we simply cooked together, created together, enjoyed together. We tasted the tiny hearts and savored the champagne moment. Wishing you all a very happy new year!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Referrals arriving--March '06 finished!

March is finished--finally! We just learned that CCAA has matched children with families through LID 3-31-06. What a long wait, but we finally made it to April! Yeehaw! What does this mean? Well, only 9 LIDs are before ours! (Remember that CCAA doesn't log in families on weekends; the next log in is April 3, 2006. Our LID is 4-14-06.) We still don't know what this means for our wait, but, remember, March's numbers were huge--much bigger than April's. We obviously will not receive a referral for Christmas as we'd hoped, but at least we can celebrate the holidays knowing that CCAA has started matching again and that we continue to move closer to Baby Rock. Thank you, all, for your support and for keeping Baby Rock in your thoughts this holiday season. Wait, Hope, Dream, Repeat.

Greetings, Guests!

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.

*To our family and friends-
A huge hug and thank you for sharing our frustration and our joy as we practice patience and faith, knowing Baby Rock is just over the horizon.

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