The Eastern U.S. time zone is now 13 hours behind China.
This means that we can start watching the CCAA site at 7:00 this evening instead of 8:00. Assuming that they go to work at 8:00, which I’m not absolutely positive of.
I’ve had a lot of people ask me what would constitute a speed up. [...]

Right now I’m hearing from a lot of people who have agencies who seem to think the wait is about to stabilize. Even Tater is saying the wait is not going to go beyond 14 months. A lot of agencies are telling their October families to expect their referral in December.
At the same time, several [...]

Half the Sky has let us know that so far, $2,983.25 has been raised towards our total.

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, we are trying to raise the money to pay for the salaries for the nannies at the center in Nanning, Guangxi. The cost for the salaries for 18 nannies for [...]

I’ve had this question asked of me so many times I’ve lost count.
But now people are starting to say “it only changes on Monday so you’re silly for watching it any other time”. Or some variation of that.
Being the data geek that I appear to have turned into, I decided to take a look.
I marked [...]

I don’t think we are going to see referrals today. I could be wrong, but I think it is going to be next week.
After I posted the news from Maria several people emailed me that their agency is pretty much insisting something similar. They hadn’t bothered to tell me because (as one person said) they [...]

According to Maria, Tater has told someone with a 10/24 LID that they will have their referral in December.
I have no idea what to make of this. If it were anyone but Tater I doubt I’d pay much attention to it at all.
Still, I’m not getting my hopes up. We all hope that they [...]