Sunday, December 04, 2005

Still waiting

Another week with no news. There was a message from the authorities in China on the CCAA website messageboard
(http://www.china-ccaa.org/lyb/content_en.jsp?table=app_lybhf_content&id=1)

    Regards to the length of time period during matching process
    Date of Post¡§November 29th, 2005 ¡¡¡¡Source¡§CCAA

    Recently, there are many speculations on the waiting time period for
    adoption process for inter-country adoption coming to China to adopt
    children. The following will help clarify such concerns:


    CCAA highly emphasizes on efficiency, effectiveness and quality, we
    have put unremitting effort to achieve this. But the length of processing
    time after adoptive family apply for their application is correlated with
    the number of inter-country adopting families and the number with the
    adopting children waiting to be adopted. If the number of adoptive families is
    higher than the number of children to be adopted, the waiting period
    will be extended, on the other hand, if the number of children waiting for
    adoption out numbers the number of adoptive families, then the waiting
    period will be shortened. Therefore, the waiting period for adoptive
    families will vary according to this and not due to inefficiency or
    other controlling factors.


Now you know as much as we do.

We painted a second coat on the trim this weekend and did some touching up. The bowling alley counter is in. Jay did a wonderful job making it fit. I spent Friday evening waxing it. It looks really cool.

The corbles are in, so now we can lean on the eat-in counter. All the knobs and pulls are on. The bathroom (formerly kitchen) door has the mirrors installed. I spent one evening last week cleaning and polishing the doorknobs/lockset/plates - so that's looking nice.

We're at the point that it's just irritating that we aren't done yet.... with the baby adopting process and the house.

C