2 DAYS??? UGH!!!

The CCAA has finished the

review of the adoption

application documents registered

with our office before

March 31, 2006.

The CCAA has finished

the placement of children

for the families whose

adoption application

documents

were registered with our office

before October 26, 2005.

ACKKK!! Only 2 days of LIDs were matched this month!! This came as a complete surprise to everyone in the China adoption community. We still have 317 days of LIDs before ours!! The good news is that if they continue at this rate, our grand kids will be able to play with our daughter. HA! We've had a very difficult couple of weeks trying to digest this latest information from the CCAA. We just have to remember God will bring our daughter home when it is time, whether it is 4 months from now or 4 years.

Since it looks like we'll be nowhere near a referral for at least another couple of years, we've decided to take the kids on another Disney Cruise next year. This gives us something else to look forward to, instead of despairing every month at the ever-lengthening wait for our little girl.

We've been discussing names again. We had settled on Mia, or so we thought, but lately we've been tossing around different names. A dear friend at church suggested, Hope. We both love that name and all it implies, so for now we are thinking of calling her Hope.

We continue to pray for our daughter-to-be and her family. We also pray the each month will bring more encouraging news than the last month.