I’m told a fairly large waiting child list was released last night. Looking at the numbers: The shortest time frame is 23 days, the longest is 41. The average is 33, the median is 34, and we see 34 two times. This means the soonest we would expect to see the next list (or [...]

I’m told a new Waiting Child List came out last night. I’ll try to get a new When post up this afternoon. Congrats to those families who were matched with one of the babies (or children) off of this new list! Hopefully by the time we have another Babies! post many of you will be [...]

We’ve done this exercise a few times before but I’ve had several pieces of correspondence over the past week that went something along the lines of “my LID is _____, when will I get my referral?” That tells me it is time to do this again. I believe that the best predictor for those who [...]

These are all things I’ve covered multiple times before, but I’ve got people emailing me like it is brand new news, so I guess I need to report them a few more times. As reported September 16th, the CCAA is requiring that all dossiers be represented by an agency that is Hague Accredited. If your [...]

Today we will visit Guangdong Province. Journey to Anna Kathryn  - Typhoon and Chen Clan Academy Kaffee Klatsch  - Sack full of Puppies  - Hardest part is bed  - Freedom  - Countdown  - Keeping my Promise  - I just flew in from China and… Bringing home Didi  - Our first day in Guangzhou  - Another [...]

Today we will visit:   * Hong Kong Highly Autonomous Special Administrative Region   * Macau Highly Autonomous Special Administrative Region I’m actually kind of surprised that we haven’t had anyone post their blog showing a visit to Hong Kong yet. I love exploring Hong Kong. The transportation system is so well thought out, and it is [...]