Top Ten

Top Ten Reasons You Know This Wait Has Lasted TOO LONG !!!!!

10. The lucky bamboo you bought on your LID is nearly touching the ceiling.

9. USCIS fingerprint tech knows you by sight

8. Librarian warns you've exceeded recheck limit of books about China.

7. You can actually eat a meal with chopsticks.

6. You can name more Chinese provinces than U.S. capitols.

5. Had to get more hard drive storage for China adoption pictures

4. "Chinese for Dummies" CD is worn out

3. Friends have stopped asking, "have you heard anything?"

2. Catch yourself worrying that it looks like the Red Couch is fading.

1. You have made Rumor Queen your homepage !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aching for Christmas

Last December about three days before Christmas, Sunnie, my granddaughter, brought me a game piece that was a multi-sided die with letters of the alphabet on it. When rolled or dropped one letter would be on top. Sunnie wanted to make up a game to play, so we started rolling the dice and then thinking up three words about Christmas that started with the letter we rolled. We went through several letters fairly easily, and then I rolled an A. I said "angels" and then went blank. I said, “Sunnie, I'm stumped, what begins with an A concerning Christmas?” With very little hesitation Sunnie said, “how about ache?” I wasn't sure that I heard right. "What did you say?" She replied, “You know, ache, like when you're aching for Christmas to get here.”

I had almost forgotten what it felt like when weeks seemed like months and a month seemed like an eternity. I had forgotten what it was to ache for something to come to pass. Waiting for our little girl from China is the closest I have come to that feeling in many years. I can tell from reading the blogs of the many waiting families that they are experiencing this feeling more keenly than I am. Perhaps many of the young waiting moms feel almost pregnant. Its not that I am not impatient, it is just that when you’re my age and as busy as we are, that the time flies even when something is delayed. I am starting to reach that age when we truly realize that time is THE MOST precious commodity that we have. Partly because we don’t know exactly how much we have and because it has finally become clear to us that we have a limited supply of it.

I guess it is the aspect of the limited time that we have that makes me most impatient to get our little girl. Even though we look forward to the trip to China and all that we will see, if I could have my way, she would already be here. If we could have her teleported here like in Star Trek, that would be even better because it would be faster. I expect that China will be awesome, but it’s not China that I want to see most, but the little girl waiting there for us. So, I suppose that for the first time in a long time, I am aching for something to get here.

It's Been a Long Wait

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. Arab Proverb

Sweet Little Faces

Here are some links to several sweet little faces who will soon be united with their "Forever Families".

JOELLE

ELLA

JESSICA FAITH

NATALIE

ITS REFERRAL DAY AGAIN!!!

YEAH! Today the referrals ( child matches) arrived in the USA from the China Center for Adoption Affairs. This month they matched through October 13, 2005. That is pretty good. They have been doing about 1/2 a months worth of Log In Dates each month soooooooooooooo IF they continue at the same rate we could see her sweet little face as early as JUNE!!

Down to earth again. Acutally we do not think they will continue to match as many days each month because the last of October 2005 and all of November 2005 Log In Dates are really big, meaning that there are lots of families logged in for those dates. Our thought is that we could be matched in the batch the should arrive in early July possibly late June. There is no exact date each month they are mailed just whenever they are complete which is generally about every 28 to 30 days.

Check back tomorrow for some links to some sweet little faces!!!

Becky