February Update

January passed by so quickly. Hubbie & I have been busy with work and getting our home ready for an addition to the family. We've been "nesting." And so, we've been spending our weekends cleaning and getting certain home maintenance projects completed.

Heartsent hosted a China adoption information meeting this weekend. The adoption agency wanted to keep their families informed about the changes that will happen effective May 1st. Hubbie & I mainly attended to find out first hand from our agency of the changes in person. It is pretty much the same as their letter that had been sent out in December to all of the China adoptive parents. It was nice to hear from the Heartsent staff in person. The Heartsent's CEO/Director came down from No. CA. to speak with us on what she anticipates for the future of China adoption and where she wants to expand with other international adoption avenues for singles now that China has closed it for singles. I finally was able to speak with her this morning after the meeting. I felt that she is truly passionate about making us, adoptive families, feel well-supported. She had started this adoption agency after her negative adoption experiences years ago. She, also, gave us her "ideas" in regards to why China has slowed down with referral times.

On the expedited referral front: There's news of some families who logged in at the end of March 2006 who received their referrals on February 1st. Let's hope CCAA will move onto LIDs of April 2006 next month. I was hoping that CCAA would've been able to move onto April in this month's expedited referrals but they did not. With Chinese New Year coming up in a couple of weeks, I'm not sure how long we'll have to wait until the news of the next referrals.

Hubbie had gotten his "ladybug sighting" finally while he was outside observing the window contractors. He noticed a ladybug on the back of his hand on Thursday, January 25th.