adoption company picnic

Today we drove down to Beloit area about 2 1/2 hours, to our adoption agency company picnic. We are traveling to china with 5 other couples in our group and we finally met one of the couples. We have been writing back in forth for about a year ago and we got to sit down and talk to them. Don and I also met another couple from Marathon City that lives 5 blocks from us, they adopted their little girl over Christmas of last year. I find it nice to talk to others that have adopted from China to get their story and tips on what to expect and what to bring and not bring.

Aug referrals are in

Aug referrals are in and the CCAA ( china affairs) have given out children for those that were logged in from Nov. 15th 2005 to Nov 21st. 2005. As most of you know we were logged in the China on March 22, 2006. THis batch of referrals brings us a little closer to our date. For anyone that is new and would like to know what this information means please refer to the right hand side of the site in posts : " Referrals" and for more information please read " Why is it taking so long to get Makayla" .

The CCAA has finished the review of the adoption application documents registered with our office before June 30, 2006. The CCAA has finished the placement of children for the families whose adoption application documents were registered with our office before November 21, 2005.

predictions on referrals

This is my prediction on how referrals are going to go in the future. We will have to see in the near future how accurate it is.
This is where we are at now. ccaa( China affairs) has given out referrals through Nov 1st 2005. We are logged in on March 22, 2006. That means that there are almost 5 months of referrals ahead of us before we get a picture and information about our little girl. Usually referrals comes out from the 1st through the 10th of each month. I heard that the month of November is a heavy month for referral log ins. Then DEC and Jan is medium and then Feb is very light. March is light during the beginning of the month then gets heavy towards the end of the month.

Good case scenario

June log in dates through Nov 16th 2005
Referrals for June only got to nov 07, 2005
July log in dates through Dec 3 th 2005
Referrals for June only got to Nov 14th, 2005
Aug log in dates through Dec 25th 2006
Referrals for Aug only got to Nov 14th , 2005
Sept log in dates through Jan 4th 2007
October log in dates through Jan 23rd 2006
Nov log in dates through Feb 24th 2006
Dec log in dates through March 10th 2006
Jan 2008log in dates through March 25th , 2006
We travel late Feb early April 2007


Bad case scenario

June log in dates through Nov 10th 2005
Worse than expected June referrals only got to Nov 7, 2005
July log in dates through Nov 23rd 2005
Worse than expected June referrals only got to Nov 14th , 2005
Aug log in dates through Dec 3 rd 2005
Worse than expected Aug referrals only got to Nov, 21st, 2005
Sept log in dates through Dec 21st 2006
Oct log in dates through Jan 5th 2006
Nov log in dates through Jan 21th 2006
Dec log in dates through Feb 5th 2006
Jan 2008 log in dates through Feb 28th 2006
Feb 2008 log in dates through March 12th 2006
March 2008 long in dates through March 23rd 2006
We travel 5 weeks later