Well, not exactly new, since it appears this happened in August. But I just learned of it, so it’s new to me. You can read the details at the TSA sight, but basically it means that if you buy a new “checkpoint friendly” bag, then you won’t have to take your laptop out of the [...]

I’ve watched referrals arrive for… well, almost a decade now. In that time I’ve seen their arrival move around the calendar. I’ve seen expected arrivals go from the end of the month for a year, then back to the middle, then maybe to the first of the month for a six or eight months, then [...]

I talked a few weeks ago about how our family calendar looks for the month of December. On top of the evening activities that we have every day this week, I’ve got one project ending at work while another is just beginning, and it’s taking up most of my time at work to handle it. [...]

When I started making projections I labeled the columns based on numbers the CCAA was doing at the time. We had a Good and Bad Case projection, which later became a Good/Mid/Bad case scenario. But as the CCAA started referring less and less, we had to add columns. We added a Horrid case, and then [...]

The last 12 referral batches arrived at 26, 32, 31, 32, 28, 38, 28, 35, 22, 27, 37, and 36 days. The average is 31 days, the median is 32. We see 28 twice as well as 32. I believe the 22 day batch was a fluke so I’m not going to use it for [...]

Referrals began arriving today. So far I’ve heard of referrals up to and including the 23rd as well as some expedited referrals for Chinese heritage. The following blogs have pictures!!!! Lucky 13 Carman Our Journey to Emma Our Journey to Kaleigh The following families in the SN program would like to share their news: Penny [...]