6 Months Down!!!


Today is the 6 month anniversary of our paperwork being found, rescued from the bottom shelf of the Beijing post office, carried to the CCAA, and finally getting logged in! Tonight Chris and I went out and had dinner at a Chinese restaurant to celebrate this milestone. Now, this is the point at which we thought we'd get our referral- but at this point, we don't know how far we have left to go. The latest round of rumors say that some agencies are really supporting the idea that the wait has stopped at 14-15 months from LID. Our agency still says 18-24 months, so maybe we are 1/4 to 1/3 of the way through the wait.

As far as the other things that we are supposed to be doing while we wait...we are going to start taking our Mandarin language lessons in the winter/ spring. I got Oly, as we have nicknamed her, a cute little octopus chair that was tested and approved by our godson Ben - we might actually start thinking of nursery themes soon!

This last weekend, Chris went to the Homelessness Project auction- one of our favorite charities- and tried to win some kids things- books, games, etc. This was completely on his own- I was more interested in the vacations- but I was out of town. But he kept getting out bid by another number- the same number. After dinner he tried to hunt the person down and found her sitting at another table. He told her that she didn't let him get anything and he was disappointed- she teased him back and said "do you even have kids?". Chris told her that "well we've been trying for a long time and we're finally in the process for a Chinese adoption but it keeps slipping back and so we want them but can't have them yet." She totally teared up! Ha ha! Chris is pretty good at yielding that guilt. She didn't give up any of the items though. :)

You have a good night- and thanks for checking in!

Megan