Sad Day

It has been a sad day in our house. I had to come home from work early because one of our horses has been very sick and the vet needed to come see her again. So far, the horse is fine, although still very sick, but the day got worse. As the vet left, we noticed a white cat laying in the yard. Our poor Nella had been hit by a car and didn't make it.

So, my day was spent spraying water on a sick horse to keep her fever down and digging a grave for our Nella cat. I hope she is enjoying herself in Heaven and is happy.

Of the five cats in the picture, there are only 3 left. Rascal disappeared about 1 1/2 years ago (he is one of the black cats in the picture) and Nella was the white cat.

WE ARE OUT OF REVIEW!!!!!!!

I checked the CCAA website and we are officially out of review. Now...let's bring Olivia home!


The CCAA has finished the review of the adoption application documents registered with our office before April 30, 2006.

LID Anniversary

Fourteen months ago the CCAA received our dossier and logged it in. Today, according to their website, we are still not even out of review. At the rate that everything is going I am now beginning to wonder if we are ever going to see our daughter.

I made a trip to Toy's R Us today to buy birthday gifts for Cole, Katie and Reese. Of course I had to buy something for Olivia while I was there. As I was walking through the infant section I saw a John Deere rattle that had a tractor on it with a cute pink teddy bear riding in it. Since J is such a huge John Deere fan I had to buy it, even if Olivia will probably not use it.

Referrals Confirmed

The CCAA has finished the review of the adoption application documents registered with our office before March 31, 2006.
The CCAA has finished the placement of children for the families whose adoption application documents were registered with our office before November 7, 2005.

Referrals are Arriving!

Last night I had a dream that the CCAA updated their website and it said that referrals were completed through April 1, 2006. Unfortunately, it was only a dream and reality kicked in today.

According to the various Yahoo groups and of course, the Rumor Queen, referrals have been arriving today. Without verification from the CCAA website, it looks as though they have referred through November 7, 2005. That is only six days of log-in-dates.

What this means to us is that there are 150 more log-in-days before the CCAA gets to us. If they continue to only refer 6 days a month we are looking at another 25 months wait. Isn't that depressing? If they begin to refer at least 10 days per month, we will still have another 15 months wait. If they refer at least 15 days per month, we will still have another 10 months to wait. I know that now everyone understands the frustration I feel when there are only 6 days of referrals completed for one month.

On a more positive note though, maybe when the CCAA updates their website to reflect the referral dates they will also indicate that April 2006 is finally out of the review room.

I hope we will have better news soon and we will finally see our daughter sometime in the next year.

Some of Olivia's Wardrobe

We needed some things from Sam's Club so I sent J there this morning. He came home with a dress for Livi, her first one bought by her Daddy.

Livi's Nana also has bought her a few homecoming dresses after I said I wanted her to wear something patriotic when we arrived on American soil, so I am attaching some pictures of those dresses too.

Olivia's wardrobe is growing and I hope she will be able to wear at least some of the things that have been bought for her.