Today I give thanks for my husband and our daughters. Our family. Today, on Thanksgiving, I give thanks for my family. They are my World.          

Travel Approvals from the November 2nd referral batch are beginning to arrive. Congrats to those families who will soon be able to start buying plane tickets!!!

I’ve played around with the numbers from the previous post. According to those numbers, the CCAA adds on average 550 dossiers a month to the backlog (combined NSN and SN), matches around 600 dossiers on average (combined NSN and SN), and around 100 families per month pull out (presumably mostly NSN). That means that each [...]

Another agency has issued a letter to their clients that gives a good bit of information. This is another great, heartfelt, letter. Again, in bullet form, here is the informational part of the letter: As of last month, the CCAA has approximately 30,000 dossiers waiting to be matched. New dossiers coming in now are significantly [...]

Let’s put this on its own thread and really talk about it. As we’ve been discussing in the comments to the previous post, there are people out there who feel that those who adopt from China are racist. They say that we’d rather fly to another country to adopt a Chinese baby than adopt an [...]

That is all. Just, they’re home. My thoughts are with the family and extended family. Nothing I can say will make anything better, just know that our family’s thoughts are with your family.