I held off on a post again this morning, hoping something would show up that I could post about. But, nothing is popping up. I do not see any agencies reporting that they have something on the way, so at this point I’m guessing we won’t see referrals this week. If anyone has any rumors, [...]

An agency has posted that the CCAA is currently preparing to match. If that statement doesn’t make sense to you, check out the Important Posts links in the right sidebar – specifically the How the Matching Room Works link, though all of them may prove enlightening.

This comes from the JCICS China page: September 16, 2009 – During a meeting with the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) on Tuesday September 15 2009, Director General Lu announced that beginning December 1 2009; all adoptive families must be registered with a Hague Accredited Adoption Service Provider (ASP). If an adoptive family is [...]

I’m not really seeing anything new out there today – I tried to hold off on a post until I found something, but there isn’t anything new that I can find. At this point it seems logical to think the 27th is probably in, and hope the 28th is in. Anything beyond that would be [...]

So far I’ve seen people with LID’s up to and including the 29th being told they are in this batch. We’re still down in the R1 and R2 range with these at this point.

The question being: At what age will TwinkleToes begin to grasp the hard parts of what it means to be adopted. There have been tough questions. Like asking if she can talk to her birth mom, and me trying to explain that we don’t know who her birth mom is. And asking why her she [...]