I just looked at our ticker and realized today is our LID anniversary! It's hard to even put into words how we feel about these, anymore! LID anniversaries used to be cause for joyous celebration! Woo hoo! One whole month closer to our referral, which we naively thought was only a mere 8-10 months away! The first few months we would even pop a bottle of champagne to celebrate this monumentous occasion! We were truly living in our own little "China world" (before Yahoo groups and Rumor Queen) clueless about the long road ahead! Yes, it is so true that ignorance is bliss!
Well, that was then and this is now, over two years later! Honestly, these last two years have been nothing but a huge learning experience for us. We have come so far in our knowlege of International Adoption and, more specifically, China adoption. Looking back, if we had gotten our referral in the original time frame we had thought, we would have been so ill prepared and totally clueless about everything! In these last two years we have learned more than we ever thought we could about raising an internationally adopted child, both, the good and the bad. We have had time to read, read, and read some more about bonding and attachment. We have taken classes and attended workshops. We have planned and prepared over and over for this new little person who is about to join our family. We have even spent many Friday nights wandering aimlessly through Babies R Us in awe and utter confustion. My how much baby stuff has changed and evolved in the last 19 years since we did this!
The best part of this long wait has been all of the wonderful friends we have made and even had the privilege to meet! Some have become lifelong for sure! You know who you are!
As for how many more LID anniversaries we have until referral, well we are happy and deliriously excited to say only about 3 or 4 more! Our referral has come down to basic math now that CCAA is getting into Jan of '06! Since they are doing about a weeks worth of LID's per month, that puts us getting our referral in May or June!
So now, raising my glass of orange juice, I toast to this long wait and it's true meaning in bringing our little girl home!
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I raise my cup-o-java with you, Diane, and toast the winding down of the wait. I'm ready to turn the page and start the next chapter. I've studied, intently, no less than a dozen packing lists and have created 3-4 of my own. I can't even imagine how it is going to feel when I take my seat on the plane to China...probably a combination of excitement and nausea!!
Hang in there!
Sharon
Yep, Sharon!
After studying for over two years we are ready to take this final exam! I just downloaded yet another packing list to cross reference with the several I already have! No matter how much planning I have done, I know I will forget something! One thing I know I will not forget and that is xanax and pepto bismol!
We are almost there!
Hugs,
Di :)
Oops! I meant two things!
:)Di
Whoa,,,we're blushing with guilt over here. How did this slip past us without giving you a high five! Congrats on 25!! Hey, we might as well celebrate - decant the wine, we'll be right over!
peace
fm
Alyson & Ford, These LID anniversaries are getting to be just like birthdays, they just come and go! How's about, since the weather is much nicer in your neck of the woods, (we've got about 2 ft of snow and it's freezing!) we'll be right over to your place to decant the wine!
Diane:)
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