1 YEAR LATER..........

OK SO IT IS 1 YEAR AFTER OUR LID AND WHAT DO WE HAVE TO SHOW FOR IT YOU ASK? NOTHING. EXCEPT A ROOM FULL OF CLOTHES AND TOYS AND A FEW GRAY HAIRS ON BOTH OF OUR HEADS! I COULD NEVER HAVE IMAGINED WHEN WE STARTED THAT WE WOULD STILL BE WAITING TODAY. I JUST KNEW THAT SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN HOME WITH HER FAMILY. BUT I WAS WRONG. I DONT KNOW WHERE SHE IS(WELL OK I KNOW SHE IS IN CHINA) I DONT KNOW IF SHE HAS EVEN BEEN BORN YET. ONE GOOD THING THAT I DO KNOW IS THAT WE MADE IT THROUGH THE REVIEW ROOM! SO OUR DOSSIER PASSED THE REVIEW OF THE CHINESE. THANK GOODNESS THAT IS OVER. NOW OUR DOSSIER WAS MOVED TO THE MATCHING ROOM. NOW DONT GET ALL EXCITED THINKING WE ARE GOING TO GET MATCHED SOON, WE ARE NOT. THE WAY I PICTURE IT IN MY HEAD IS THAT THERE IS A VERY LOOOONG HALL WAY THAT LEADS TO THE MATCHING ROOM AND THERE IS A BIG LINE OF DOSSIERS WAITING TO GET IN AND WE ARE AT THE END OF THAT LINE. MAYBE SOMETIME BETWEEN NOW AND THIS TIME NEXT YEAR WE WILL BE AT THE FRONT OF THE LINE! OH HOW I WISH I COULD BUTT INFRONT OF PEOPLE!
SO FAR CCAA HAS MATCHED THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE LOGGED IN ON AND BEFORE 10/24/05. NOW IF YOU FIGURE UP THE DAYS LEFT TO OUR LID OF 3/15/06 YOU GET 142 DAYS LEFT ( I KNOW THIS BECAUSE OF THE BIG CALENDAR I HAVE MADE FOR MY OFFICE AND OH YHEA FOR THE ONE I HAVE MADE AT HOME FOR RUSTY SO WE CAN MARK OFF THE DAYS MATCHED). NOW IN THE PAST YEAR CHINA HAS AVERAGED 14 DAYS PER EACH MONTH THEY SEND OUT REFERRALS. SO TAKE 142 AND DIVIDE IT BY 14 AND YOU GET 10.142857. THAT IS POSSIBLY HOW MANY MONTHS WE HAVE BEFORE WE SEE JADEN'S FACE. SO JANUARY! BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO FACTOR IN THAT OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER ARE HUGE MONTHS FOR DOSSIERS, WHEREAS DECEMBER, JANUARY, AND FEBRUARY WERE NOT SO BIG. SO MAYBE WE WILL SEE A SMALL SPEEDUP. IF THEY WOULD JUST DO 20 DAYS PER BATCH I WOULD BE HAPPY, WE WOULD ONLY HAVE 7.1 MORE MONTHS SO OCT-NOV. NOTICE HOW WE JUST MISSED THE CUTOFF BY A DAY OR TWO SINCE IT WAS .1 OR .142857. WELL I WILL GO NUTS IF WE MISS THE CUTOFF OF GETTING REFERRALS BY ONE DAY!!! OF COURSE I GUESS THEY HAVE TO STOP SOMEWHERE. AT LEAST THEN WE WOULD KNOW WE WERE NEXT. AT THIS POINT I WOULD BE HAPPY TO HAVE HER PICTURE BY CHRISTMAS OR WHAT WOULD BE VERY GOOD IS TO SPEND CHRISTMAS IN CHINA!!!