I started out my spreadsheet this morning with this post. Remember, I had hard numbers that I used to come to those conclusions, and I felt like (and still feel like) those numbers are very close to actual CCAA numbers. Since I haven’t received any hard numbers since then, pulling those figures forward means depending [...]

The U.S. State Department has released their orphan statistics for FY2009. It appears that there were 3001 adoptions from China to the U.S., including both NSN and SN. I had hoped to play around with those numbers some this weekend, but it just didn’t happen. And then my car wouldn’t start this morning and RK [...]

I’ve been around the world this morning. Virtually, that is. I see a whole lot of speculation, but I don’t see any rumors. With a new director in place there are a lot of unknowns, but my guess is that this means we aren’t going to see referrals before Christmas. I would love to be [...]

Apparently, the CCAA is going to start notifying agencies that a new SN list is about to be released. I’m assuming the agencies have complained about having to wait up all night to see if a list gets released, and the CCAA is responding to that. This may sound like a simple thing, but I [...]

Before I get started on Christmas readiness: The only NSN activity I see is a few expat referrals. I do not believe there is a direct correlation between expat referrals and “regular” referrals. Congrats to those who just received a referral! Please feel free to share your news with us when we do our next [...]

We had several suggestions yesterday. To date, I have wanted the attachment discussions to happen in the General Discussion area because it has been my experience that the people who won’t go searching for attachment discussions are the people who most need to see those discussions. If we put attachment discussions off in their own [...]