Happy and Sad

Today was a day filled with happiness and sadness.

First the happy: One of my adoptive friends is about to receive her referral. Yeah! Also, we did enjoy a date afternoon at the IMAX to watch the new Harry Potter movie which was a nice distraction.

Then the sad: We started the morning with the fact that my car needed a new A/C compressor clutch and coil ($$). Then, at lunch time, we found out we'd missed this batch of referrals.

I had my hopes up that this was finally going to be our month only to be let down once again... While we're still waiting for the official cut-off, we've probably only missed it by a day or two (latest rumors have it that they've matched through the 11th). At this point we're still optimistic that we're pretty much a shoe-in for the next batch of referrals. So now it's looking like referral end of Aug/beginning of Sept with travel in October.

Here's the official notice:

7/27/2011 Matches Arrived!!!

We just received a group of matches for our families who are logged in July 7, 2006. We did not receive any matches for our families who are expedited due to Chinese Descent. We do not know the official cut off date at this time as the CCCWA has not updated their intranet site. Congratulations to our matched families! We will be making match calls tomorrow. We will update this website when more information becomes available.