I wish you Merry Christmas my child...

There’s a little girl trembling on a cold December morn, and crying for her mama’s arms,
At an orphanage just outside a little China town, where the forgotten are,
But half a world away I hang the stocking by the fire, and dream about the day I can finally call you mine.

It's Christmas time again but you’re not home, your family’s here and yet you are somewhere else alone,
So tonight I pray that God will come and hold you in his arms and tell you from my heart,
I wish you Merry Christmas.

As I hang the tinsel on the tree and watch the twinkling lights, I’m warm by the fire’s glow,
Outside the children tumble in a wonderland of white, make angels in the snow,
Half a world away you try your best to fight the tears, and hope that heavens angels come to carry you here.

It’s Christmas time again but you’re not home, your family’s here and yet you are somewhere else alone,
So tonight I pray that God will come and hold you in his arms and tell you from my heart,
I wish you Merry Christmas.

xxx

~lyrics from a song by 'Third Day' (US Band)

6 Months...

When we started this process we knew people were getting referrals (ie. when we recieve information on a child) 6 months after LID. Then travelling 6-8 weeks after accepting a referral. That should have been us - now. And we would have been travelling in January - probably around my Birthday.

But as you will know now, from my previous posts, the timeframe is holding at about 15 months from LID to referral. So we are not even half way there (and that assumes 15 months will hold and not get any longer). I am not angry, or frustrated, or upset. I am sad. I am sad that we will have another Christmas without our child, that I will have another Birthday (and Shane most likely will as well), that another Mothers Day will come and go - but most of all that we are losing precious time with our daughter.

On a positive note - the rumour front has a couple of nice things to hold on to. It seems that April 2006 LIDs are in the Review Room, and that there maybe a few new SWI's (Social Welfare Institutes - ie. Orphanages) signing onto the IA program... meaning more babies will find homes with families.

So here's to us Batch 45 - 6 months under our belt. Cheers!

xxx

Uuugghhh... CCAA Update

September 8th 2005 cut-off. Uuuggghhh....

Congrats to new families about to be formed.