I originally posted this back in November of 2006. I’ve come a long way with my writing, and I cringed as I read some of it. Not because what I said was wrong, but because I’ve learned a lot about sentence structure and how to tighten my writing. The original post can be found here, [...]

First, I think I’ve got the forum running better now. I changed the structure of some of the tables (without having to pay someone to do it, go me) and that seems to have helped. I have not turned search back on yet, though. We’ll wait for things to peak later today and see how [...]

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 [...]

People seem to ask about the status of the review room every couple of days, and my answer is (unfortunately) the same now as it has been for the past six or seven weeks: Some agencies know that their February people are out of review, but as of now the CCAA has not moved all [...]

I think we have some more answers to when the adoption is final and what the implications of this are. From people’s experiences, it sounds like it is usually considered final by the orphanage director and by the Civil Affairs office if you’ve signed the paperwork, and not based on whether it has been registered [...]

First, they review the baby dossiers and make sure there are no issues with them. We are told that they then count up all of the baby dossiers that are eligible for matching that month and then look to see how far this stack will go in the parent dossiers without sending out a partial [...]