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.

Bring Me Hope

Baby steps forward!!!

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 24, 2005.

So what does this mean? Families whose documents were logged in with the CCAA between Oct.14 and Oct. 24, 2005 have finally been matched with their babies! Our LID (Log in date) is Sept. 8 2006! That's 318 days of LID's before ours. The CCAA has been matching an average of 2 weeks of LID's per month, lately. But Oct. and Nov. 2005 were reportedly huge months in terms of #'s of families with LID's during those months. At this rate, we anticipate the wait to extend to about 2 years from LID to referral, but pray it does not extend too much further!

Families with LID's in March of 2006 have made it through the review room. This means the CCAA has given final approval for these families to adopt from China and their dossier will now move to the matching room. April and May LID's are now in review. We are hoping to be in review by the end of 2007.

We are slowly moving forward, but at least it's progress. Every day brings us a little closer to our baby girl!!!!

Busy, busy, busy!!!!

First of all, Happy Chinese New Year! It is the year of the Golden Pig, which is considered by the Chinese culture to be a very lucky year. The year of the Golden Pig only comes every 60 years and any child born in this year is considered to be very lucky.
We realize that we still have a very long wait ahead of us before we are able to finally meet our daughter. We thank God everyday for our boys and for the family and friends which He has blessed us with! Because our lives are so involved around these loved ones, the time really is flying. I can hardly believe that it is been nearly 6 months since our paperwork was logged in with the CCAA!
Our life has been a little chaotic these past few weeks. My younger sister and her husband blessed us with a beautiful niece. Emerie Daine was born on Feb. 8. Her big brother Carson is ecstatic, as is the rest of the family. The very next day, our dear friends welcomed to their family, their 3rd child, a daughter, Sedona Rein-8 lbs 12 oz. We give praise to God for these beautiful miracles.
Yesterday evening, Morgan represented our school in the county spelling bee. He placed 3rd. We were so proud, but he was disappointed. He was just a little nervous- Ha- and misspelled a word he knew. I really think mom and dad were just as nervous as he was, but our buttons were definitely popping with pride.
Jackson had a basketball game yesterday evening as well. It really is entertaining to watch 1st graders play basketball. His team won-woo hoo! (Thanks Aunt Jackie for stepping in for us last night!)
Morgan has his first basketball game this evening, so we're off again!
Our social worker e-mailed us yesterday asking if she could come by today for a visit. She has to visit every 6 months to keep our home study current. Well, needless to say, I asked if next week would be possible instead.
I can't believe next week, February will be gone. Another month of waiting under our belts. We continue to ask for your prayers for our family and for our hopefully soon-to-be born daughter in China

About us

We are Chris and Tammy Stubblefield. We've been married 12 1/2 years and are the parents to 3 wonderful sons, Morgan (11), Jackson (7), and Hudson (2). Early in our marriage, God planted a seed in our hearts to pursue adoption ,at some point ,to build our family. After 3 very difficult pregnancies plus the everyday chaos of raising 3 boys, that seed got buried and nearly forgotten. We both knew our family felt incomplete, but were unwilling to endure the stress of another pregnancy. One afternoon in Feb. of 2005, God whispered a gentle reminder to us both. It was like a light bulb moment. We both suddenly remembered our original plans. We attended our first informational meeting at our now adoption agency in April 2005 and we both knew we were in for the long haul and knew we were heading to China!
In January of 2006, we were accepted by our agency and our paperchase began. Our dossier left for China on August 4 2006. We were logged in (LID) to the Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs on Sept. 8 2006, thus securing our place in a very long line. We are anticipating at least another 18 months of waiting, (but probably longer). Although the growing wait is disheartening, we know that God's timing is perfect and the months of waiting will melt away when we are finally able to hold our daughter.
Thanks for joining us on our adoption journey.

Halloween at Disney