The rumors that I heard on Thursday have come true. The CCAA only matched 2 DAYS in this referral cycle. According to a woman who has tracked referrals since 1997, this is the lowest number of days they have ever matched, but it is supposedly the month that they received a record number of applications. I have repeatedly seen that the rest of Oct 2005 days were giant like 10/25 and 10/26. What does that mean for us? For now it means that are definitely not in the May batch. Possibly not in the June batch. I told Mike we need to start telling people we are getting her at Christmas.
So looking over the databases that adoptive parents have set up online (lots of time for this during the wait) here is what we could possibly be facing and what I am preparing for.
May batch: 10/27-10/30 (I am only including the 29th and 30th because it’s a weekend and pretty much no LID’s)
June batch: 10/31 – 11/1 (these days reportedly contain huge amounts of LID’s like 10/25 and 26)
July batch: 11/2-11/5 (and more?)
This would have us traveling around September. Do I really think it’s going to be that bad? Your guess is as good as mine, but I have to prepare for it. We could make it in the June batch, but I would rather think July so I don’t get excited again. International Adoption is unpredictable and we knew this going in, but somedays it can just catch you off guard. So we are just going to make plans and continue on. God is good and we know that we will get exactly the baby He has for us. But I would be lying if I didn’t say that my heart is hurting today.