Stork Alert

I've heard from another 7/14 LID family that she's expecting her call TODAY. Our agency is sometimes a day behind due to translations and checking information, but we should be getting our call either today or tomorrow. Stay tuned for the latest developments!

The stork is on its way!

UPDATE: Post from our agency:

8/29/2011 Matches Have Arrived!

We are excited to announce that we have received a match group today!! We received matches for families logged in on July 14, 2006. Unfortunately we did not receive any expedited matches in this group nor do we know what the official cut-off date is. We will be calling all families who were matched tomorrow.  Congratulations to all matched families! We will update this site once we have news on the next match group.

Let the Roller Coaster Ride Begin!

The question I get daily is "When will your referral come?" Well, the answer could be today, tomorrow or next week... Last time this notice got posted by our agency, referrals came out the next day. Am I expecting that? NO! Would I complain if they did? Definitely NOT! So, let the rumors and the roller coaster ride begin...

8/24/2011
Beginning to work on next set of matches

We believe the CCCWA is beginning to work on the next set of matches. We do not know the cut off date at this time.

We will update this website as soon as more information becomes available.

Oh My!

Doing the "happy dance!"

Our agency just posted some great news:
The CCCWA is beginning to organize paperwork to begin the matching process. We do not know the log in dates for the next group of matches at this time.

So, what does this mean? Well, we could be getting "THE CALL" next week!

There's so much to do that it's overwhelming. My mom offered to help and I may have to take her up on it. Today's task was working on the living room bookshelf and removing everything below a certain level that little cuties shouldn't be handling. It's a start, but so much more to go...

What to expect for next week (or whenever we actually get "the call"):
Information we'll initially get is her photo, name, age, height, weight, province and orphanage she's in

From there... we start the next phase of visas and travel arrangements. Getting excited!

Oh, and I guess we better get cracking on finalizing that name!

Getting Closer...

Today I got the 2nd installment of my Hep B shot getting ready for our impending travel to China.

All of this is really hitting home because today is what I like to call "Baby Bonanza" for a few of my adoption friends who are in China right now receiving their children. I've been emotional all day. It's hard to imagine all the emotions that both of us are going to be feeling when we actually get our referral and then get to hold her in our arms for the very first time. Our referral is now only 2 to 3 weeks away. Robert and I haven't been sleeping well - all of this change soon to be coming our way...

My favorite is what one of my friends here said to me: "She has to be very special to have made you wait so long." Well, I would have to agree!

Pillow Sham

Yesterday, my mom came in town and between the two of us, we were able to finish up the matching pillow sham to go with our daughter's 100 Good Wishes Quilt. I think it turned out beautifully, but I'm a little bit biased. Thanks again mom... you're the best! As always, my mom does the sewing and I do the cutting and trimming.

The official cut-off

Well, the official cut-off for this last batch was 7/12/06 (original posting was found to be incorrect), so we missed it by 2 days. But, we can still say for sure that WE ARE NEXT!!

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.

Getting one step closer

When our agency, puts the notice below on their internal website, we know that we're about a week or two away from the next batch of referrals. Time to hang on, because this next week is going to be crazy! Here's to hoping to be in this next batch. We'll probably start to hear some rumblings of rumors by next Friday at the latest I would imagine.

7/20/2011
Preparing to work on Matches

The CCCWA is preparing paperwork to begin to work on matches. We do not know the log in dates for the next group of matches at this time nor do we have any further information. We will update this website when more information becomes available.

5 years

Who would have thought when we started this process that the wait to bring our daughter home would take over 5 years, but here we are on our 5 year anniversary of being logged-in (the date our paperwork arrived in China) finally getting close to seeing our daughter(s) face for the very first time. So much has happened in the past 5 years besides the fact that we're 5 years older. We've traveled the world, Robert got his pilot's license, family has gotten married, lots of kids were born and we just enjoyed life. We've been so accustomed to our life as just a married couple of 2 and now our life is about to take a wild turn. I hope we're ready for it! We've been trying to mentally prepare for it, but really... how can you?!

Hopefully, we'll hear about the next batch the last week of July or first week of August and know if we've made it in this next batch or if we're going to have to endure one more. I'm optimistic, but you just never know.

All I can say is that during these 5 years, I've made some amazing friends in my adoption group and look forward to seeing them in China. Our July 14th LID (Log-in date) is the BIGGIE of the month so we're going to have a lot of families with babies in our group traveling with us. It's going to be a wild time in China!

Please have happy thoughts for us as we hope that our wait is about to end.

Getting ready

Well, we're starting the preparations for our impending daughter(s). We just got our lovely car seats in the mail yesterday. Yeah! We bought two - one for each of our cars or if we're referred twins, then both for my car. Lots more purchases yet to be made, but one more item checked off the list.