Years ago, there were rumours galore about when the CCCWAA (the Chinese Centre for Child Welfare and Adoption Affairs) may have started working on the next set of paperwork and referrals. For days, I would receive updates about matching and referral date cut-offs. It was exciting and nerve racking at the same time. People would speculate on how many days China would match, who would receive their referrals, etc. When referrals would finally start to arrive each month, it was a long list of people and everyone would be celebrating.
Now, there is nothing. If we get a day or two of "heads up, something may be coming" that's it. Referrals seem to arrive out of the blue, with little or no warning, and the list of families announcing a referral has dwindled to only a handful. Great for those people who will now become a family, a little anti-climatic for the rest of us waiting. It was fun to get caught up in the excitement. Now we just wait. And wait and wait and wait.
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