Oh boy this has been a fun month. My cousin Chari and her 2 boys visited from Georgia. We spent the weekend in the keys with them and had a great time playing with the kids.
July 4th was nice and quiet at home and with friends. Just this past week we rented at the beach with friends and family and had 3 days of side splitting laughter and tons of fun. WOW! That's all I can say.
July 21st, we celebrated my parents 25th Anniversary. It was so nice to share so many years of love and dedication with our family and friends. I'll post pictures later. Happy Anniversary, Mom & Dad! Chris and I also celebrated 8 years since we met. Yes, we met on my parent's anniversary! How cool is that?!
And now on to China news! Referrals came out on July 21st for 2 dates in March. Families with a LID date of March 21-22 will be seeing their babies' for the first time this week! I know this process has been slow but I have faith that once March 2006 has been completed we will see an increase in the number of days referred.
We have 54 days of LIDs ahead of ours. Our LID is 05/15/06. It all depends if China increases/decrease the number of LIDs per month. See the chart below to see how we determine when we will receive our referral.
- 2 days per month/27 more months
- 3 days per month/18 more months
- 4 days per month/13.5 more months
- 5 days per month/10.8 more months
- 6 days per month/9 more months <--- This is the most likely
- 7 days per month/7.7 more months
- 8 days per month/6.75 more months
- 9 days per month/6 more months
-10 days per month/5.4 more months
Just to give you an idea what is taking so long. China used to send out referrals for 30 days of LIDs. Once the program became so popular, China couldn't keep up with the demand for babies and domestic adoptions became very popular too. China decreased the number of referral days from 30 to 15 to 10 to 6 to 2. There have even been months that only 1 LID gets referrals. Those have been very frustrating.
We look forward to that day when we can post our baby's photo! Thank you for sharing our journey with us.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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