Hope's Song - Melody Zhang's Blog

Click here to read the latest from Melody Zhang's blog. She is associate director of CHI and has been in China since right after the earthquake.

http://www.melodyzhangorphans.blogspot.com/

Current Wait Time

The current wait time, as of May 9, 2008, is 29 months from log in date to referral. As you all know, our LID is 8.23.07. As of the 23rd of this month we will have been logged in for 9 months. Sooooo....... that means if everything remains constant, which I don't expect it will, we should get a referral in January of 2010. We'll travel two months after that.... sigh. :)

When we started this process, I was 35 and Brent was 38. Couples under the age of 40 are eligible to adopt a child 6-18 months old. Couples over the age of 40 (not sure if this means one or both) are eligible to adopt a child who is 12-36 months old. I've often said that she would be "around 1" when we get her.... I think this is still true, although I can't be sure.

National Geographic

Very cool spread in National Geographic on China. Check it out.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/

689 Dossiers Ahead of Us!

There were no referrals this month for any CHI families, so the next LID that is up is still 1.13.06 -- but for whatever reason, 6 families dropped out. There are now 689 dossiers ahead of us.