nothing new........

It's been awhile since I posted, but there's nothing new really to report. We have no clue as to when we will travel and quite honestly at this point it's getting a little hard to be so upbeat and positive about things. LOA's seem to be taking a little bit longer now. The average wait as most of you know is 90 days from your LOI or LID whichever comes first. We were LOI then LID which means our dossier has to be reviewed before we can receive our LOA. Tomorrow will be day 70 for us so we're getting closer to 90, but part of me feels like we're going to pass 90. There's no rhyme or reason to the wait time. Some get through faster, some slower. Two other families from our agency both with boys in Kunming (like M) waited over 90 days. One waited 98, the other waited approx 120 days. As Matt always says - it is what it is. There's nothing we can do about it here, but keep going and things will fall into place when the time is right. All things happen for a reason. And I'm trying to focus on the positives of traveling at the end of August or even September vs. early August like - flight costs may be less, the weather may be a little cooler there, I'll have a little more leave time built up, we'll have time to submit paperwork for two adoption grants that would help cover some of our expenses (all of you who are adopting or have adopted know what a blessing these grants are!). Our agency is trying to get updated info and pictures for us. I'm not holding my breath since I've heard how difficult it is to get pictures from M's orphanage. It would be great though just to have an updated picture!
Sorry to be such a debbie-downer.... all families that are adopting go through these stages. It's definitely a roller coaster ride! We're hanging in there with the best of 'em!