Today is my May 16th LID's first birthday!! Please join me in having cake!!! Hopefully it won't celebrate a 2nd!!
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
First Birthday!!
Today is my May 16th LID's first birthday!! Please join me in having cake!!! Hopefully it won't celebrate a 2nd!!
Friday, May 11, 2007
Macy Jean Update
Cousin Brian and the sweetest co-pilot Macy JeanToday Mighty Macy was at St. Jude's for her 6 month follow up. The scans show she is still cancer free! Praise God!
Oh, and Happy Birthday to my Big Brother Darin....39 years old today!! Yikes...that's crazy!! It seems like just yesterday you were tormenting me...your sweet little sis;-)!!
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Sunday, May 06, 2007
New Wishes
I received 2 new Good Wishes for Sloan's quilt.
The one above is from my Aunt Mary and Uncle Dwight...I love the fabric!
The one below is from my cousin Stephanie and her son Cason. They really made it special!!
The one above is from my Aunt Mary and Uncle Dwight...I love the fabric!The one below is from my cousin Stephanie and her son Cason. They really made it special!!
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Agency report
Here is part of an email I received from my agency..nothing new, but thought I would share:
I’m writing to thank you for your support through prayer and fasting on behalf of orphans waiting to be adopted. I was able to meet with officials from the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) to discuss a number of the issues that have arisen with the China Program over the last year or so.
The issue that I sought the most clarity on was the increased wait-time that families are experiencing. The CCAA is, in many ways, experiencing problems due to their own success. China has been a reliable and stable adoption option for inter-country adoption for over ten years – and with other countries causing problems (Russia and Guatemala are two big sending countries that have had problems recently) the number of dossiers being sent to the CCAA is far more than ever before. The CCAA gets thousands of dossiers a month, from all over the world, and countries that have never worked with China in the past are lining up to work there.
The CCAA staff believes that the new restrictions (going into effect on May 1st) will restrict the number of dossiers being sent to their office—and will eventually allow for the wait-time to decrease. Unfortunately, we don’t yet know when this will start to be evident for our waiting families. The CCAA staff will also be coordinating new ways to help special needs and older children find homes. This summer will be the beginning of a focus on new projects the CCAA will be undertaking to help ensure more of China’s orphans can find families.
My prayer is the children who could be adopted in China—but aren’t yet registered with the CCAA—would be registered quickly. There are still a number of orphanages that have never sent children to the CCAA and these are the orphanages and children who need our prayer the most.
I’m writing to thank you for your support through prayer and fasting on behalf of orphans waiting to be adopted. I was able to meet with officials from the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) to discuss a number of the issues that have arisen with the China Program over the last year or so.
The issue that I sought the most clarity on was the increased wait-time that families are experiencing. The CCAA is, in many ways, experiencing problems due to their own success. China has been a reliable and stable adoption option for inter-country adoption for over ten years – and with other countries causing problems (Russia and Guatemala are two big sending countries that have had problems recently) the number of dossiers being sent to the CCAA is far more than ever before. The CCAA gets thousands of dossiers a month, from all over the world, and countries that have never worked with China in the past are lining up to work there.
The CCAA staff believes that the new restrictions (going into effect on May 1st) will restrict the number of dossiers being sent to their office—and will eventually allow for the wait-time to decrease. Unfortunately, we don’t yet know when this will start to be evident for our waiting families. The CCAA staff will also be coordinating new ways to help special needs and older children find homes. This summer will be the beginning of a focus on new projects the CCAA will be undertaking to help ensure more of China’s orphans can find families.
My prayer is the children who could be adopted in China—but aren’t yet registered with the CCAA—would be registered quickly. There are still a number of orphanages that have never sent children to the CCAA and these are the orphanages and children who need our prayer the most.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
This and That
To those not in the adoption community...the wait continues to lengthen. It looks like May's referral cut off was November 1st, 2005. That puts me with a possible referral in late 2008. Sigh...not much I can do...just stay busy and have a lot of things to look forward to!!
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