For months now our agency has been telling us "you should hear something in four weeks". The first time was around the 4th of July. Second time was at the beginning of August. After begging for any news from our agency told us it should be sometime this week. That was last Thursday.
What do we want? We want our official 'referral' letter from the Chinese gov't. Supposedly everything has been sorted through and we are just waiting for the letter to arrive to our agency. And then we will get a call from them letting us know that it has arrived. I last spoke with Junji, our Chinese facilitator here in the US, on Thursday while at the Home Depot, trying to find white primer to cover our hideous red bathroom. This is when she gave us the latest "that we should here by the end of next week." But here it is Wednesday and again, once again, nothing.
We get plenty of calls but none are the one we want...Home Depot letting us know our storm door is in, forgot about that, old friends calling to see how we are doing, how the adoption is faring (sigh...I wish I knew) and countless miscellaneous solicitors (we are on the Do Not Call list in case you are wondering).
This letter is important as we send it back "accepting the referral" and it's put in place to begin the process for a travel date. About - you guessed it - 4-6 weeks after we receive the referral letter. Looks like we won't be in China before November. Which will make it harder to get our son's surgery before the Christmas holidays. Oh well. As long as we finally get him.
We hope to hear from our agency by the end of next week.
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My fingers are crossed.
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