Month 32, and Referrals

Referrals came in yesterday for LID's of March 21 & March 22, 2006. I expected only 2-3 days by looking at my agency's list of LID's. CCAA seems to only do one batch per month, so I expect it will take at least 3 more months to finish up March, 2006. I wonder if things will speed up a little after that. I guess only time will tell.





And today is my 32nd LID-iversary. No end in sight. I'm now looking into renewing my I-600a application as my approval expires in October. I sent an email to my homestudy agency yesterday afternoon to find out what I need to do other than send in the application with more money. I figure I'll need to use the free extension after this one expires in April, 2011, but I hope I will get my referral before the free extension expires in October, 2012.

We Leave For Vacation Saturday

We are leaving for the Black Hills in South Dakota on Saturday. We're renting a lodge with 4 other moms and their kids. The girls are so excited they packed on Monday. I'm slowly getting ready, but would love to jump in the car and leave now. We'll be seeing all the main things: Mount Rushmore, Custer State Park, Crazy Horse, Bear Country, Deadwood, and maybe riding a train. Jessica wants to pan for gold, so we'll work that in as well. It'll be really nice to get away and hopefully relax.

Adoption Forecast and It's Jessica's Birthday!!!

Our prediction for LID 2006-11-22
China has 247 days of dossiers to be processed before they get to your dossier. China currently processes about 4.1 days of dossiers each month.
Our best guess: 2014-04-24

Jessica would be almost 15 and Anna 13. Holy Cow!

So with 247 days ahead of me, here's a look at roughly how long I will wait if the average number of dossiers processed each month is:

6 - 41 months
7 - 35 months
8 - 31 months
9 - 27 months
10 -25 months
11 -22 months
12 -20 months
13 -19 months
14 -18 months
15 - 16 months

I don't dare go with a higher average since even a 7 or 8 day batch is rare. So if CCAA could get to referring a half a month at a time, I'd get a referral by November next year. A 4 year wait. Right now that looks unlikely, but then again, March is a HUGE month and it looks like numbers drop off a lot after that.

Hey, and today Jessica turns 10. Double digits! Wow, where does the time go?!