Adoption Update

Our agency updated their site. They usually do this on Wednesdays so Tuesday was a nice surprise. CCAA (Chinese Consulate of Adoption Affairs) has been taking a month to match 1/2 of a month of babies to their families. Lately they have gotten slower than that. The last batch of matches was only for 2-3 days of October. Today they posted that they are through with the families until November 1, 2005. We have heard several reasons why the wait has gotten so long. Some of the reasons are just too hard to wrap my brain around. One thing they told us was that the orphanages from different villages have built these huge facilities and once children are placed with families and there may not be enough children to keep these facilities open -too many jobs would be lost. We heard that many orphanages were placing babies on the black market because they were able to make more money (how sad is that?) and they do not have to be accountable for the number of babies on the market. The CCAA has changed the guidelines for families trying to adopt. These rules took affect today. So, the CCAA has been trying to rush these families through. We are keeping our fingers crossed that things start speeding up. Our LID (log in date- the date the CCAA enters you into their system) is March 8, 2006. We still have 5 months until our LID is up to be matched with a baby in the Matching Room. We have been waiting with this agency for a 13 months, and before that we were in the Korean program for a year. The wait is starting to get hard, so I am really working on getting the quilt for Molly together. I have felt so closed off to China, I am sure it's to subconsciously protect my heart. I hope the quilt will help me feel closer to China and to give our little girl something to treasure.




These are the dossiers waiting to be matched. Our dossier is waiting somewhere like this.










This is how the matching room looks.