Someone PM’d me the following dilemma:
An FCC group has playdates a few times a month. Someone invariably sees all of the kids playing and all of the Caucasian moms and asks questions and says something like “it’s just wonderful that ya’ll have done that”, or “those kids are so lucky to have been adopted”, or [...]

I’ve made the rounds and read through PM’s and emails and most of the forum posts from the afternoon.
So far I’ll say that it looks like it is an R5 (or maybe even a fact) that there are packages headed to a couple of agencies who seem to think they might be referrals. Again the [...]

An agency that I’ve not heard rumors from before thinks referrals may be here early next week.
I’m going to be in and out of meetings the rest of the day. If anyone has information that might back this up (or anything on the cut off date) you may want to send it to the mod [...]

The CCAA review department is smokin’!
Congrats to all of the families who are breathing a little easier now, that’s another milestone behind you.

There is a thread in the forum about comfort food. And people (me included) list chocolate. That’s a pretty broad category. One might even call it a food group.
So let’s talk about our favorite kinds of chocolate.

Mint chocolate chip ice cream
Brownies - just barely undercooked
Chocolate chip cookies, still warm and gooey soft.
Hershey’s Kisses
M&M’s
York Peppermint Pattie
Fudge
Hot [...]

It is still very quiet out there.
One thing I’d like to address though, is that the arrival of one months’s TA’s and the arrival of the following month’s referrals aren’t connected.
It often seems that they are connected, as it often works out that referrals arrive shortly after TA’s arrive. However, we should remember that this [...]