Projections... finally some great news

As those in the Chinese adoption community are familiar with, a few days after the last batch of referrals comes out, the "Rumor Queen" (RQ) comes out with a post with her latest projections as to when she thinks the next batch of referrals may hit. Well, if you look closely at this chart, you'll see that we probably only have 1-2 more months/batches to go until we're referred our child(ren).

So, how does this chart translate? As China started doing fewer and fewer matches each month, RQ kept having to downsize what she thought the typical batch size would be. During the Spring of 2008, we thought they were doing really small batches only to learn a few years later the batches would get even smaller. So Spring2008Small is a bigger estimated size than Spr 2010, and Wntr 2011. Are you confused yet? Well, suffice it to say that the 2 left-most columns are the more likely columns to look at for reality, which means that our day has finally come!

I hope Shan (from my amazing adoption group) doesn't mind me copying some of this, but if China does the same size batch they did this time around at the end of June, they will get to about July 22nd. When I tell you that, if that happens, you will hear screaming from CO to the East Coast and everywhere in between. I have been waiting all these years with some amazing women whom I've grown very attached to and the thought of some of us not traveling together breaks my heart. So if all you readers out there could cross your fingers and say a little wish for us, wish that the CCCWA gets to 7/22/06 next time.

So to my MaMa Sisterhood, it IS finally our time and we WILL be in China together soon enough! We'll need to do a group photo with our tees on!