Adoption Timeline

We decided just over 12 months ago that it was really time to get moving on our 2nd adoption. We had had a false start 12 months before that and had ended up remodeling our home and then decided to sell it and buy the house we are in now so that slowed everything down once. We didnt want to start the process and have to stop and re do tonnes of paperwork again so we waited until this house was remodelled and we were all settled in and then we started. So lets see the timeline. Homestudy began in August and and paperwork went to BCIS around the same time. Everything was going great barring 2 hurricanes and the usual paperwork hiccups. Everything finally came together over the holidays and our dossier made it to China in January just in time for Chinese New Year.....very handy. That crucial step of the way is called being DTC and the offical date was January 27 2oo6. The Chinese Centre for Adoption Affairs in Beijing (CCAA) logged our paperwork into their system exactly one month later on February 27th 2006, that is our official LID, also a very crucial date as everything now revolves around our LID. Back in February referrals were taking about 8 months. Bounce forward 7 months and we now see that referrals are taking ~FOREVER~! Oh well, we will get there is it just a matter of patience and as you sit back and read you will learn that I am not a patient person about many things but when it comes to my children I am. However I do not enjoy the uncertainty and I hate having to tell Lily that I dont know when she will have her brother or sister. But I promise her that it WILL happen.