86 batches to go!!!

another batch has been allocated, number 7 from tassie, they got got a little girl born on the 20 of Jan 2008.
there log in was 22nd of feb 2006...
there are now approx 87 batches in front of us!

can you believe it has been 2 years and 4 months since we attended the information session and applied!!

News News News December 2008

CCAA has finished the review of the adoption application documents registered with their office before 28 February 2007. They have also finished the placement of children for the families whose adoption application documents were registered with their office before 23 February 2006.

reminder that ours went in on the 23rde of April.....

Do the numbers mean anything???

I have just been sticking beaking on the australia adopt china website and there table of batches goes like this.
there are a total of 199 files been sent to china since the begining of time.. from Australia..

The lastest batch was 113 from NSW

We are 197 so that means they need to allocate 84 files before they get to us..

this really could take forever...

News News News

It has been officially posted that:

CCAA has finished the review of the adoption application documents registered with their office before 31 January 2007. They have also finished the placement of children for the families whose adoption application documents were registered with their office before 9 February 2006.

Wow feb 06, those guys waited 2 years and 7 months..

We are Logged in 23rd April 2008

Been a long time since i have posted, we have been away. But very excitingly we have been logged in only 6 days after our file went to China! So no more hurdles to jump, just a long long long wait!
I am editing this post as silly me thought we had done all there was to do... and forgot about or may be i didnt know about the review room...

FIle is off to China finally

1 year and 4 months and our file is off to China yippeee
now just wait for the DTC (date to china) the LID (log in date) and then many many many months down the track allocation......
You know i have been reading rumour queen and they released some blogger sites that have been allocated in the last few weeks, like waiting for lucy.
It is so fascinating that they say whew how stressful the paperchase has taken 3-4 months! how does that work? Are they then going to wait an additional 12 mnths for allocation?
There is loads being talked about and done in the AUstralian adoption community about all these wait times etc. But i feel it will all be to late for all those before me and for us?
Man is not infertility enough to suffer? then this wait.
The strangest thing for me is that here i am waiting for some poor lady to get pregnant, someone who knows she cant keep the baby or who is praying for a boy, then she has to give up her own child so that i can be a mother. Sometimes this whole situation feels wrong....
One womans suffering is anothers most joyous occasions.

On that happy note :)

Mrs Negative

You know one of my sticky beak sites is Mrs Negative, i have been reading her blog for a long time and more recenty after a struggle she has become a mum. It is so wonderful to read her blog... What she says is all the small things that so many mums ?take for granted or maybe just dont often express because they are caught up in all the little things.. these are the things that i dream and long to feel and it is nice to see a new mum (or an old one) cheerish even the small things of being a mother that i miss out on every day...

Mrs Negative says" I can't quite explain how it feels to finally be a mother. Even to myself. It's so much broader than I ever imagined. Of course, I knew that being a mother meant having a child, but I never thought about all the...moments. The hundreds of tiny moments that combine together and create a day. Wiping his face. Putting on socks. Bathing him, clinging onto slippery arms as he thrashes, splashing suds into his own face. Announcing to no-one in particular "Oh, he's tired" or assuring Cooper that "I'm coming, just a minute" as he bellows from his crib.
I feel more important than ever before.
I feel more normal than ever before.
I feel like I finally belong.
And it is a feeling renewed everyday."

I want to fee important
I want to feel normal
I want to belong
and who needs to say renewed.....