There are a whole lot of things people say that objectify our kids, and they all make me a bit sick to my stomach. The biggest culprit is also a racial slur, the “China Doll” phrase. I keep hoping that it will just go away, but it keeps creeping up. I will never understand how [...]

Long ago, none of the comments here had to be moderated. But, as we’ve grown, spammers started spamming the comments, trying to sell their crap. There are some add-ons to the software that help keep spammers off of the site, and there are some recommended guidelines to help site owners keep spam out of the [...]

Here’s how the Special Needs shared list should work, in theory:
An agency employee should have a list of families and the various special needs they feel comfortable with along with preferred age ranges, gender, etc. The agency rep should be able to look through the child’s medical information and decide if this is a fit, [...]

A few more agencies have jumped on the “should hear something next week” bandwagon.
No one is talking about cut off dates yet.
I don’t really have enough to even give anything an R rating yet.

A few agencies are starting to talk about referrals. One is saying they are “about to start matching”, another is saying they think referrals will arrive next week.
I’m not seeing anything that tells me agencies are hearing cut off information.

I have word that the first TA’s for the end of December referrals are beginning to arrive.
Congrats to those families who will soon be buying those plane tickets!!!!