Another LID anniversary....

Here we go again. There isn't much to write each month. Trying to stay optimistic, empathising with fellow adopters, and keeping busy.
Not feeling very good with details lately, I sent 50 holiday cards with the wrong adoption blog address. Luckily it didn't take them to something nasty. Just nowhere. Now do I send a postcard with the right address as a follow-up?

I did buy an ornament (see below) but didn't take it out of the box- I might end up sending it to someone who actually goes through with the wait.

We are in the mist of updating our home study. Just had some doctors appointments & our police reports are cleared. There is some paperwork to file with our gov but it isn't as much as the first time. We will wait for another appointment time to be fingerprinted again.

Lessons

Hard to post lately. I use this blog for more factual or information for others.
The emotions are still there. Overly controlled on this blog but as I wrote my holiday letters last night- it was hard to update others with "still waiting to adopt."
My dream world was going to have her in our family pictures this year & to welcome her and introduce her to the Christmas card community of friends & family that we have.
Sigh...
I recently watched Evan Almighty with the family & a great friend. I am intrigued and think about a special quote in it lately.
The comment is coming from "God" (Morgan Freeman) to Evan (Steve Carrell)
"If you ask God for courage, does he give you courage or does he give you the opportunity to be courageous?"
So I am going to take this a few steps further -
If you ask God for patience, does he give you patience or does he give you the opportunity to be patient?
If you ask God for strength, does he give you strength or does he give you the opportunity to be strong?

I am trying to learn & grow from these opportunites...

14 LID anniversary

Yeah! We are out of the review room and moving down the hall to the match room but the cart our paperwork is on is in a HUMONGOUS back up line.

Yesterday was our official 14th anniversary. Some people like to celebrate anniversaries - I would like to celebrate the GOTCHA day instead.

More Math

This information came from another site but they explain some of the math.

Using this information to calculate the number of dossiers ahead of us Sept 2006ers:
as of October 2007 30000 dossiers at CCAA
12600 dossiers for October 2006 - April 2007 if you use 1800 dossiers filed on avererage for those months
3000 dossiers for May 2007 - October 2007 (if you use 500 dossiers files on average for those months)
30000 - (12600 + 3000) = 14,400 dossiers ahead of us
with 7000 referals a year or (7000 / 12= 583 referrals /month)
and 100 files closed per month
14,400 / 683 = 21 months or August 2009.
That would put us at a total wait of about 35 months.

While my thoughts are obvious on this- there is hope for something to change. I guess I will keep up the faith.

We are currently renewing our paperwork with the US gov. We are granted one FREE extension. After our paperwork expires the second time- I believe we will drop out.