Not our Month ... Again?

A short while back I wrote a post where I said I was envious of the people at my agency because part of their job is to call people every month and tell them they have been matched to a son or daughter. Today I experienced a part of their job of which I am not envious...the part where they have to contact the families that had expected to make it in and didn't.

Unfortunately, Jeff and I were not matched with our daughter this month. The CCAA matched only two days worth of dossiers, October 25-26. As far as I can tell, no one has ever heard of the CCAA only matching two days. I think the smallest batch had been five days.

Not being matched this round was never even an option...in all the different scenarios of how this month's batch would go, this one never crossed our minds. In fact, many agencies were shocked by only two days of matches, including our own. That being said, we have been told that the last few days of October had a very large number of people logged in. So, even though they only matched two days, the number of people that were matched is still pretty close to what they have been producing the past few months.

Because of the rumors at the end of last week, Jeff and I were somewhat prepared for bad news today. Once we received official word from our agency, reality sat in. We are both handling it fine....really what else can we do? October 27 had a large number of people logged in and so we are not alone today....there are many people who are dealing with this same news...as well as people with LIDs through October 31 who had also expected to be included this month.

Although we should be "next"...we thought we were "next" this month...and we now know that anything can happen in this process. China will close for holiday May 1-7 and that is when the next set of referrals would most likely come out. So, they
will either send the batch in advance (not very likely); or they will send out the referrals when they return the second week of May.

Jeff and I believe that there is a reason for everything and that God has a plan for us. We are on the path to our daughter that He has set forth and we are quickly discovering that this path is not in a straight line, rather has many twists and turns. But we know, that as long as we follow His lead we will one day come to the end of our path and meet our daughter.