Well I seriously can't believe that is has been since October since my last post. That really is ridiculous. I want to keep it up so one day I can look back but it is hard to stay motivated. I tell people that we are adopting but truly it doesn't even feel real, it's just like something we say.
I don't know what to say about the timelines? It is truly a wait and see game, if China would continue to match approx the same amount of babies as the last year or so than it would probably be about 18 more months but it looks like China might be purposely slowing things down even more.
I read an interesting comment on RQ a couple of weeks ago about a group in the States that raises money throughout the year and donates it to the orphanage where their children came from - apparently it is a significant amount (ten thousand +). Anyways apparently this group had discussed giving the money to another charity since China keeps saying that they don't have as many babies etc... so when one of the group members talked to the orphanage director regarding this decision the director said "no, no' no" we have just as many babies as we always have (he even showed them the paper work) it is just that most of them are in foster care now instead of the actual orphanage, he said he counts on that money in his yearly budget. UGH this makes me sooooo angry - WHY??? WHY??? WHY??? Why are they doing this? The wait is getting absolutely ridiculous, unfortunately there isn't anything we can do but wait but it is very sad and very disappointing. This January marked 4 years since we started this process and almost 41 months since our LID, I seriously have nooooo idea how much longer??
Anyways I am going to try to post some of the highlights with pics from the last couple of months, I feel I need to get more into it like I was at the beginning or else it isn't exciting at all.
