Everyone say a prayer...

There is a new director at the CCAA ( the central adoption agency in China). It is not yet clear if this person is the overall director, or the director of the reveiwing room, but he is already impacting adoptions. Every time a new director moves in, the rules change a little. Several people this week have been told they are no longer approved to adopt for past medical history or age.

I think Nicholas was meant for us, and I cannot imagine any reason we would be denied at this point. But the denial are coming out of the reviewing room, where our file hopefully now sits.

I pray that this new director helps speed up the review process, and that he positively impacts our travel time to complete our adoption. But all settle for just keeping things on track.

Justin still has yet to let people at work know he is adopting. Other than his supervisor. He had to tell her because she will be out on maternity leave when we are estmated to be going to China! He did FINALLY submit through human resources for FMLA (family medical leave act) to take time off when the time does come.

On a happy side...Kristen and her husband left this morning for China to pick up their daughter, Brooke, who is also at the same SWI as Nicholas. She has been kind enough to take pictures of all of us still waiting and the children we have been matched with in the hopes that she will be allowed to take pictures of our children. I think we have more of a chance of getting pictures this way than through the CCAA!