Five months down

Today we are officially LID for 5 months. When we started the adoption, that meant we would have only one month to go. Oh how times have changed. Referral times have slowed drastically and it could be another five, six, or seven months until we get a referral. As a point of reference, China is only up to families registered on or before May 30, 2005. We were registered on October 26, 2005. There are a LOT of families ahead of us in this line. I get sad and frustrated. I am impatient. I feel silly for having a completely decorated nursery. I feel vindicated in my refusal to purchase even one item of clothing. I am partly relieved that I will not be plunged into parenthood, just yet, because I am afraid I will not know what to do. I am desperate to see the face of our little girl. Waiting sucks.

Retail therapy much?

Referrals are trickling out of China so it looks like at least fall before it's our turn. Quite a change from the initial timeline, when we expected a referral at the end of April. I'm not even going to get into how much this sucks. To cheer ourselves up, we bought a new car. Ours is all black, sunroof, phat stereo, etc. etc. We pick it up Saturday... whooohooooo. At this rate, we're going to shop ourselves out of house and home... ah well. At least LK will have a sweet ride. I can just imagine the sunroof open, the stereo pumping a little DMC and LK dancing in her fancy carseat*: *fancy carseat has not been purchased. LK is hoping fancy G-ma ponies up that one.

ok... I had this coming

So appropriate after the previous post:

You Are 32% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

heh heh - he had it coming***

Frodo is a punk. He's a sweet little punk, but a punk. With lots and lots of hair that gets very, very matted. It doesn't help that the dogs like to chew on him. So off to the groomers he went. This is Frodo before his haircut - a proud persian mix (a little blurry, but you get the idea): This is Frodo after his haircut: oh yeah... he's pissed!!! **No animals were harmed in the making of these photos. All haircuts were performed by licensed pet groomers.

Finally!

An adoption song that isn't dripping in sugar... (click on the watch the video link in the middle) I love, love, love it. It helps that I am a huge Run-DMC and Sarah McLachlan fan anyway... but wow. Enjoy.

Positive spin

So referrals are dragging out and it's possible we won't get our referral until October or even later (unless China really starts speeding up, which could also happen). There's also a little rumor going around that the CCAA likes to match children in part based on the child's birthday being close to the parents' birthdays. There is a connection between these two rumors. James and I both have April birthdays (and we were married in April too, so it's a GOOD month). If referrals DO drag until October for us, AND if the birthday rumor is true, we could be referred a six-month old!! That's my spin and I'm sticking to it.