That is how far the CCAA got with their referrals for the month of June. They stopped with the November 1, 2005 LIDs last month, so they only made it through six stinking days. I felt sick to my stomach when I read that. November 2005 is supposed to be a huge month in terms of dossiers logged in, so at this rate, it could take six months just to get through November. We likely won't see 2006 LIDs referred until next year!
What does that mean for us? Well, the earliest we could likely be logged in because of my age is sometime in August 2008. CCAA is still in early November 2005. For us to get a referral from China, CCAA will have to work through all the dossiers logged in between November 2005 and August 2008. We had previously figured that if CCAA referred made it through November by August (this was based on an earlier rumor that June 2007 might see a big batch of referrals, which ended up not being the case), and then referred three week batches every month until they got to August 2008 LIDs, we would have a referral in just under THREE YEARS from our LID. So somewhere around late summer 2011. M would be five years old. We felt like that would be doable for us, because baby #2 would likely be close to a year old, making our girls about four years apart in age.
But now... I'm just sick over another month with only six days of LIDs. If CCAA continues to refer six days of LIDs, it will take FIVE YEARS just to go through ONE year of LIDs! M could be a teenager before her sister comes home! Seeing this all laid out in excel makes me furious at the adoption agencies who continue to insist to prospective adoptive parents that the wait for a Chinese infant will be about two years. In what universe??? The ONLY way the wait will be two years is if 1) a large percentage of the people already logged in drop out, pull their dossiers and go somewhere else and 2) the CCAA goes back to referring a month or more of LIDs each month.
I'm inclined to just say "forget it" and move on, but Hubby and I really have felt called towards China. We're not quite ready to give up. So for now, we are watching and waiting, ever the eternal optimists, hoping for some miracle to occur in the Chinese adoption program, hopefully before it comes time for us to begin the paperchase.