I am not hearing from agencies that the CCAA internal box has changed. For the purposes of this post I am going to operate on the assumption that the cut-off was March 2nd. I’ve also updated the histories page with this assumption as well. This first chart shows the size (in poll numbers) of the [...]

In an effort to approach this by degrees, I’m still pointing to the adult adoptee writings that aren’t so hard to read. I had intended to gradually get to the rough stuff, but as I look through blogs and websites I think that maybe I don’t need to point to any of the really rough [...]

It was tiny. Teeny tiny. There were some expedited families included, but from I’ve seen I don’t think there was a large amount of expedited families, so that doesn’t really explain the teeny tiny batch. Agencies are not reporting that the box has changed yet so I haven’t changed the box here, but it appears [...]

The following blogs have pictures!: Grimes Party of Five Annabelle Arriving Our Journey to Graycee Lara at Last Waiting-for-Miss-Daisy The following families are adopting from other programs and would like to share their news: Julia Makes Four Waiting for Hope Hoping for Hannah 4ever-Meimei Setten The following blogs have music and are not work safe: [...]

It sounds like some agencies received their referral packets this morning and are making phone calls. So far I’ve seen 3/1 being referred, as people make their announcements please let us know your LID. (UPDATE: latest is now March 2) If you are expecting a referral in this batch and would like your blog included [...]

Enough agencies have something headed to them that it seems likely that it is referrals in the air at this point. Could still be something else, but not all of the agencies with something on the way are expecting TA’s. The bad news is that the March 2nd cut-off rumor is persisting. If that is [...]