Glass half -full, NOT half -empty!

After reading all of the emails from our potential travel mates...I feel a little differently! Of course, everyone else was VERY excited and did not look at the half-empty glass as I tend to do (that is a nice way of saying I can be negative. Those who know me are laughing right now!). Anyway, after having the entire day to dwell on it, I realize there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with going next year! The end result will be the same either way...We will have our third child home, and safe with us! So, that being said, I will "sign off" and try my best to view everything in a more "positive" light! Of course, the grandparents are hearing none of it and insisting she will be here in November or December! Denial? Only time will tell...Until then, we wait!

The "mysterious" Log in Date has arrived!

Poor Taryn...This is what she has to look forward too!

Okay, maybe I was in total denial, I don't know, but now it looks as if we will be traveling to China in January or February 2007! Actually, it will probably be February 07, because we can't travel during the Chinese New Year, which I think is almost the entire month of January. This fact has "overshadowed" the joy of having our LID at the moment! I really believed we would be going to get Taryn in December! That was when I was just "guessing" at our LID-I guessed wrong! I was thinking the beginning of February (or hoping). The later day in February gave us another month-January or February OF NEXT YEAR!!!! This is upsetting for 2 reasons: 1. Our precious daughter will be waiting for us longer (and vise-versa), and I can barely stand the thought of her in the orphanage. 2. We do not get the tax credit money back until 2008's taxes! Believe me, that is a considerable amount towards her adoption-later than planned.
So, our date is February 23, 2005... There's not much else to say! Except, now when people ask me "when" it will happen I will have a more definite time frame! We should get our referral in December, so that will be a fun Christmas present!
Now, now I am starting to understand the "dreaded" wait I have heard other adoptive parents talk about! It somehow seems so much longer when you look at next year!
Okay, I am done "venting", we are that much closer to bringing her home!

Aprils list!

It is April and still no log in date for us. However, we have been assured by our agency that we have one by now it just hasn't been sent in as of yet. We are hoping our date is in early February as our Dossier papers were sent in mid-January. A log in date (LID) is important to us because that will be the "official" date our waiting period starts. That is the date we are "logged in " with The People's Republic of China and begin to be "considered" as parent's for one of their waiting baby girls. So far, it seems most people are still waiting 10 months for their referral (the picture of their chosen child) and then another month to travel and pick up their child. So, if nothing changes (no SARS or bird flu epidemic!!!) it will hopefully be November or December-we can only wait and see!
We do however have a "list" of people we will probably travel with! That is cool because we can all start to get to know each other before we spend 14 days together in China! I guess I was naive to think most of the people would be from around here because our agency, A Helping Hand, is in Lexington (only 30 short minutes away!). But, it turns out, there is a large variety of States represented in the group. That will be fun to get to know others from everywhere! This group is also significant in the fact that all of our daughters (and sons) will be given to us together, at the same time. We hope Taryn will have some life-long friends in this group!
Well, that is the only "update" we have for everyone. Just continue to keep us in your prayers. Most importantly pray for Taryn (and the other waiting children), we just want her to be "safe" and healthy until we can be with her...