So, do you want…
the Good News or the Bad News first?
Okay, Good News:
The care package was delivered to Emme Lu’s orphanage on Christmas Day. Amazing. Didn’t try to plan it that way, just happened. I hope, hope, hope, they let her have everything I sent.
Bad News:
There’s probably going to have to be another care package (Valentine’s Day, anyone?) because we heard from our agency today that the CCAA in all their infinite wisdom decided to give us a new LID: 11-21-06. I was just fine with the old one (8-3-06), thank you very much. *Sigh.*
So, the way the counting to TA goes is from the last significant date of something happening to your case at the CCAA–so, instead of counting from LOI (Day 79 today), we are now knocked back to counting from this new LID, and so we’re on Day 38. Average wait to TA right now is 94 days.
January travel just slipped through our fingers, folks. And, because of Chinese New Year, we’re suddenly looking at early March, according to our agency’s rep in Beijing. Blech. She’s 19 months on March 1st. She needs surgery. I first saw her face on September 7th. You do that math. It’s not supposed to take this long!!!!!!
In other news, it finally snowed here:
but only to 5,000 feet…the ranch is at 4,200, so we get the view of the frosted mountains and don’t have to deal with the snowkeeping…
Happy New Year!
Oh, honey - I am so sad to hear this. Man!! Any sort of explanation as to why they changed your LID? Did it have to do with the switch to SN? I really, truly can only imagine how this must feel for you guys. Sorry…
Comment by: wzgirl - 12.29.2006 - 7.05 pm
OH NO! That’s so very, very wrong. I’m terribly sorry.
Comment by: walternatives - 12.29.2006 - 9.19 pm
Sorry about the bummer news.
Comment by: Johnny - 12.29.2006 - 9.41 pm
Oh, Linda! Damn.
Damn, damn, damn.
Comment by: atomic mama - 12.29.2006 - 10.38 pm
Well just CRAP. Not sure how the sn program goes, but how they gonna just give you a new LID? Ugh. I have nothing other than…… #@$%*&!!!!
Comment by: Jacquie - 12.30.2006 - 6.40 am
Well, crap to that, I say. The CCAA strikes again. Shoot. I’m sorry.
Comment by: new girl - 12.30.2006 - 1.58 pm
Super suckity crap! I’m so sorry for the bum news.
Comment by: Aimee - 12.30.2006 - 4.47 pm
Unbelievable. What will they think of next to torture us? I chose China because the program was so smooth, so calculated….so cut and dried…..I’m so sorry you have to wait even longer.
Comment by: christie - 12.30.2006 - 11.35 pm
Oh gosh, I’m sorry to hear about the delay. It is so hard to wait once you have seen a beautiful face and then to be delayed after that is simply torture. Hang in there and here’s to a speedy TA early in 2007.
Comment by: Perrin - 12.31.2006 - 8.09 am
Urgh!!!
Comment by: Maggie - 12.31.2006 - 9.38 am
Linda- that sucks. It totally sucks. I want to kick someone over there for you.
Comment by: Nicole - 12.31.2006 - 10.23 am