Yesterday, I got the very strong feeling a few times during the day that something had moved forward with us getting closer to finally meeting our little chickie. I'd gotten a similar feeling for Savannah around the time her Chinese mother might have discovered she was expecting her. Could our paperwork have hopped from one crucial desk to another? Could we have reached an unknown milestone? Don't know! Just know that I felt encouraged and somehow closer.
I got an amazing email a this week, from a very nice Sudbury area family we'd met when we started with Children's Bridge. They'd completed their homestudy, and were about 6 months ahead of us in the process of getting their file to China. They adopted a little one 2 years before we did, and her birthday is the same day as Savannah's, 2 years before to the day! They've since gone to Vietnam in March of this year, adopting an adorable little boy. His birthday is one day before Tanje's, same year! How about that?! He was referred at the age of 1 month, and adopted less than 5 months later.
CB is telling us the wait time between referral and invitation to travel is now 5 1/2 months, which would mean if things stay the way they are, we might travel 6 months from referral, taking us to January 2011. The kink in this is that Vietnam is currently ratifying The Hague agreement (relating to rules around adoption), so that may slow us down. We'll just see how accurate my positive vibe was!
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