And now it is August
We’ve been shopping to get ready to go back to school, and for everything else that starts back again this time of year as well. We have to get signed back up for Chinese Classes, and dance classes for TT, and GG’s various extracurricular activities will get ramped up again. Our calendar is rapidly filling back up, and I’m not ready. The girls are more than ready though, so like it or not, I’ve got to deal with it.
What does August mean for the adoption community? It means if there is going to be a speed up, it should happen soon. Sometime between August and November would be my guess. We have not seen evidence of it yet, but there are agencies still expecting it to happen. I’m not holding my breath that it will actually happen, just reporting what multiple agencies (more than a dozen) were and are saying. Only time will tell, as always in this crazy process.
Meanwhile, our little vegetable garden is giving us more veggies this year then ever. We have so many tomatoes and squash we are giving them away. RK decided to try a cherry tomato plant this year, and every day the girls get more than a dozen little ripe tomatoes off that they get to share while dinner is cooking. I can’t believe how loaded down our one cherry tomato plant is. Our normal sized tomatoes are flourishing also, but we’re giving most of them away. The cherry tomatoes are all eaten by GlitterGirl and TwinkleToes.
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:55 am
You are lucky to have such a nice crop of veggies at this time. My tomato plant just has little (tiny) green tomatoes on it. It hasn’t been really hot enough for the veggies.
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:19 am
Anything beyond 6 days would be more than a miracle.
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 am
Some local food pantries take surplus veggies. It’s worth it to check so that neighbors stop ducking under windows soon as they see you walking down the street with more zucchini.
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:46 am
Sorry, but I have been out of the loop, getting back in as we are thinking about starting adoption #2. Why would August – November be the anticipated time for a speed up?
I thought that a speed up wouldn’t happen until the we got to May 2007 LID when new restrictions were in place.
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Wow kim532, You must have the patience of a saint. I amazed that someone would get back in line for China considering the wait is 3 plus years for non-special needs. I fully expect it to be 4 plus years before we bring our little one home.
I guess if you are doing Chinese descent or special needs it wont be such a long wait.
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Yes, we would do SN. Our 1st child is a cl/cp boy from Hunan that came home July 2008. We would do SN for a boy.
There is no way I would adopt from China and get in the line for that wait for nsn. My agency right now is begging for families to consider adopting boys. I am just trying to figure out where the money is going to come from for #2.
Allso the link right now to my website isn’t right. I updated my profile, but there must be a lag in the updating. I love showing off my son. http://www.ryan-kim.blogspot.com
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
I was wonderng – if the speed up was because of the increase in donations, would that not mean there would had to have been an increase in finding ads placed at from the start of the year. Have I thought that through correctly?! And if so is there any way we can find out if finding ads are increasing?
Thanks
Clare
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Part of the rumor was that they would complete more adoptions in 2009 than they did in 2008. So for the rumor to prove true then the number referred per batch should go up.
The rumor is not that the wait will start getting shorter, just that things are going to pick up so that the wait doesn’t exponentially increase as bad as it has done in the past few years.
Again, it’s a rumor, nothing is set in stone.
I’ve been spreading the veggies between family and neighbors so no one has received them more than once. Well, except for my parents, but I know they want them as my dad has been making vegetable soup and freezing it.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Aren’t finding ads done for all kids found?
Why would there be an increase in finding ads?
My dad used to make all kinds of soups and froze them. Unfortunately he didn’t leave me any recipes.
Kristine
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Finding ads are only placed for children going into the IA program. They are part of the legalities needed in order to legally define the child as an orphan.
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:06 pm
so does that mean that if we were to see a speed up more finding ads would need to have been placed? Is there any way that is monitored apart from the research blogger?
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I was under the impression that the CCAA knows when paperwork has been started for a child and that that was part of what started the speed up rumors – that they knew more babies were having paperwork started for them.
And since that it takes a few months for the paperwork to be completed it would take a while before there would be a increase in the number of referrals.
And also that the law that went into effect in April would eventually result in more children being available for adoption.
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I don’t want to get my hopes up, but at this point I just hope we don’t have to renew our paperwork again (we renewed in May, and our LID is 5-19-06.) Yeah, that’s how pessimistic I am…
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:13 pm
kubibah-that’s not pessimism that’s realism. I’m just hoping I don’t have to renew it 4 times, instead of 3. :-)
LID 4/17/07
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
The other site that I check for predictions is based on number of days referred. Now that I am so close, it is less accurate.
Unless more days start being referred and since no one really knows how many adoptions are completed per LID, how can anyone say that there has been a speed up by looking at how many LIDs are referred?
To-date, only 22 LID days have been referred in 2009. There were about 42 LIDs referred the last seven months of 2008? NO speed up there.
Our best bet for seeing a speed up is to watch the polls on this site……not numbers of days referred.
If you look at the poll numbers for the last six months of 2008 and compare them to the first six batches (7 months worth) of 2009, then there were 94 more referrals made in 2009. Even comparing the last 7 months of 2008, there have been 33 more referrals made this year. Knowing that we really can’t compare across polls makes these numbers a bit shaky….even so, maybe there really is a speed up happening and it is hard to see because March 2006 is SO HUGE!
z
next (fingers and toes crossed)
most likely next-next
March 27, 2006
August 4th, 2009 at 12:22 am
Z- the number of days referred means nothing really…..
the load has been so heavy for some of these dates that therer are more people logged in for a single day than there are for an entire week in other months. if that makes sense.
say, 100 families were logged in for march 31… and 90 families were logged in for april 1-7. the single day of march 31 would mean more referrals than the whole week of april.
soooo….
August 4th, 2009 at 12:41 am
I go to the CCAA website and it does in a polite, suggestive manner talk about ‘improved efficiency’ and the need for children to be in homes and not live in the CWIs their whole lives. I find these tidbits encouraging. Their new computer system sounds very positive.