We have a report of a phone call in Europe!  Woo HOOOOO!!!! If you are expecting a referral in this batch, or if you are in another program and would like to share your news, please list blog name and blog URL in the comments to this post. The following blogs have pictures! Red Thread [...]

I don’t see any reports yet of phone calls being made. I’m also not totally clear on when referrals left China. If they left Sunday in China (Saturday night our time) then they could begin arriving today. If they left China on Monday (Sunday night our time) then it’s possible some agencies could receive them [...]

With four agencies reporting a cut off of the 18th, I’m now giving that an R4. With one fairly reliable agency reporting matches have been mailed, I am giving that an R3.

A European agency has posted to its website that the cut off is May 18th. Until we get confirmation from other agencies this is an R3. I do not see that anyone is saying they’ve been mailed, or when they might be mailed.

I’ve recently been made aware of this book, so I haven’t read it yet, but it looks pretty interesting. It also has 7 five-star reviews, with no reviews less than five star. Pretty impressive. Here’s the blurb: The red ribbons of a little girl’s sash become imaginary ties to her birth mother and her adoptive [...]

What do you do for family time, when you find yourself with time to do something and no one knows what they want to do? We play games some, or we talk, occasionally we do the popcorn and a movie thing. I try to keep a few crafting projects around so we can do those [...]