One agency has notified their families that the cut off will be the 9th and that 10th will not be included in this batch.
This one is somewhere between an R2 and R3 at this point.

We’ve heard word that China was going to change their national holidays around some and it seems that may have happened.
I’m told that this Friday, April 4th, will be a holiday. That means the CCAA may be closed Friday.
It sounds like the one week holidays in May and October are going to be shortened and [...]

I don’t see anything that talks about anything outside of that window of the 10th to the 13th. I’m still at an R2 with that window though.
Also, there are now two agencies saying matching has begun, I’ll have to say that’s probably true at this point.

There is a rumor that matching has begun, but I haven’t been able to trace back to figure out where the rumor came from originally. So, an R1 on that one. Odds are that they are probably matching by now, though.
And then I see rumors of a cut off for anywhere from the 10th to [...]

To China’s credit, they have never allowed world events to interfere with adoption. I remember a statement back when our people were being held during the Hainan Island incident in 2001 and agencies inquired about whether travel could continue. The response was that the babies were not pawns to be played in a chess game, [...]

I’m sick. So is RK. Both girls are fine, but RK and I are literally almost too sick to care for them. Thank goodness for grandparents and friends. All we had to do yesterday was get them up and get them ready and grandparents drove them for us, picked them up, fixed them dinner, and [...]