Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Now for an update

Lots of tidbits to report.....Since the last update more referrals have come out. They were only for one day but came about a 1 1/2 week after the batch on the 29th of Sept. They were only for one agency but it was for 2/16/08 and the last batch only covered thru 2/15/08. So now I don't know if I am 6 or 7 days away from my referral. The next interesting tidbit is that when Brent and I went for our updated physicals we found out that our doctor is also adopting from China. Talk about connections. She was wonderful and she talked to us about what we needed as far as immunizations and antibiotics before we go. She is LID is Sept of 06 so she is still several months behind us.

The only other new thing we have been doing is going to hockey games and Titans games!!!

The rally beard


This is Brent's "rally" beard. He is doing this for the rest of the wait for our referral. For those of you who love me........pray for a quick referral!!!! I think Brent is finally losing his mind with the wait or he is really getting excited over how close we are. He says he is not shaving again until we get a referral. I am just glad he didn't start growing this beard at the start of the adoption.

I Have Been Tagged!!!

I never do these things, but for my friend Jen who did the tagging I will.

Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you and post the rules.
2. Share 7 random or weird facts about yourself.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and link to them.
4. Let each person know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Facts about me:
1. My husband is younger than me
2. I am a huge James Patterson fan
3. I never suspected that I would enjoy hockey almost as much as my other 2 favorite sports (college basketball and professional football).
4. Once I decided I wanted to be a mom there is nothing I have wanted more
5. Pepsi and potato chips are my weakness
6. I now enjoy spending nights at home with my husband watching HGTV, TLC, and Food Network.
7. I am crazy about my two dogs!!

Jan
Daeon
Teresa

Unfortunately I can't think of 7 people who have blogs!!!

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Latest Update

I have been getting a lot of questions this week most likely because I was around people that I only see every couple of months. So I want to take a minute to let everyone know the latest. We had been hoping for months that we might get our referral in October but as many of you may or may not know referrals came out on Monday September 29th. Yes these would be considered the October batch. The good news is that they came on the early side the bad news is that we were not included in this batch. This batch covered from Feb 10th thru Feb 15th. If they do the same number of days in the next batch we are still looking at two more months before we get our referral but if they will do 7 days then we should be in the next batch. On the rumor queen website her predictions show that even with a worst case scenario that we should get our referral by either the end of November or the first of December. I would really like to be with my daughter for Christmas either here or in China so the only way that would be possible at this time is if we get our referral in this next batch and that we get travel approval quickly. So everyone that will please be praying for us. We have spent too many Christmases without her already and it would mean so much to not have to go thru one more. On the positive side of it, even if we are not with her for the Holidays we should at least have her picture and be getting ready to go get her.