I’m told that some people from the most recent referral batch received their TA’s yesterday.
That was fast.

From comments to yesterday’s post, an agency has told their December 22nd families that they will be included in the batch we are expected at the end of January or beginning of February.
It’s not much, and it’s an early rumor, and it’s one agency. And it is not a cut off date, just a mention [...]

I don’t have any rumors yet about the next batch of referrals.
There are always other rumors floating around, but they are all about things we’ve talked about before. I mean, how many times can we talk about the affect of the Olympics? We’ve already talked (several times) about all of the various rumors and theories [...]

 
I’ve ordered one of the Theraplay books and I’ll let ya’ll know what I think of it once it arrives and I’ve had a chance to put some of it into action.
I’ve also ordered the rest of the Sookie Stackhouse books. Glittergirl and I have this thing where we each get one of our [...]

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Yesterday was about sharing hard numbers. Today is about figuring out what other information I can gain from those numbers. I had one more piece of data that I should have shared yesterday as a hard number: In 2005 around 1200 special needs kids were adopted (100 per month). That should have been in [...]