A European agency says matching is just about done, and they hope to see referrals early next week. No word on a cut off date yet. This is only coming from one person at one agency, which means it’s down in the R1 or R2 range.

One of the theaters in town has the seats with arms that can push up, so you can sit beside someone without the arm between you if you want. We went to that theater specifically so I could better hold GlitterGirl during the violent parts. She still gets in my lap at home, but not [...]

We have one rumor, an R1 at this point in time. One agency is saying the box has changed to show referrals through April 30. But only one agency is reporting this, and the review is through April 30 of ’09, and most right now seem to be of the opinion the agency is looking [...]

If your spouse wakes you at two in the morning with something wrong… wrong enough to call 911 and beg for the ambulance to please hurry, how do you take care of your kids and your spouse? Is there someone who can arrive quickly to watch your kids so you can follow the ambulance to [...]

Our polls are not scientific. If they were scientific then I would contact people who were adopting and ask them questions, and I would have a way to make sure I was getting a random sample. Also, I would know for sure (within a few percentage points) what percentage of the total I was polling. [...]

 We can’t get attrition numbers from a poll, since people who have left the program aren’t likely to be hanging out here anymore to tell us about it on a poll. The best way I’ve been able to come up with for getting some kind of snapshot of how many people remain in the NSN [...]