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Or should it be 30?

Happy Birthday to my little sister - can't let this one slip by unnoticed!

May your next decade be as exciting as the first three!

love, jo

now, where were we?

Ok, so I've missed a few updates/ milestones/ holidays, etc, etc. The adoption news has been dismal (at best), and we have been really busy (a good thing). The combination of those has kept me from checking in with bloggy world and quite possibly has preserved my sanity.

So, here is a whirlwind update with bullet points and everything:

• SEPTEMBER 1 = Chinese National Holiday for Teachers Day - I am actually really sorry I missed this one. A national holiday celebrating Teachers? OK, they got this one right. Go Teachers!
• SEPTEMBER 4 = REFERRAL DAY - CCAA made it to November 25 . . . ONLY FOUR DAYS . . . and 193 LID days to go . . .
• SEPTEMBER 6 = 15 month LIDversary - no comment
• SEPTEMBER 25 = Chinese Traditional Holiday - Moon Festival - since I missed explaining this, you'll have to wait until next year . . .
• OCTOBER 1 = Chinese National Holiday - National Day - the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949
• OCTOBER 2 = REFERRAL DAY - CCAA made it to November 30. All I can say is . . . FINALLY. Goodbye to November. (it only took 6 months - yikes!) 188 LID days to go
• OCTOBER 6 = 16 month LIDversary - yes, another one bites the dust

I almost forgot that somewhere in the middle of this we had to redo our paperwork and reapply for our I-171H, get new fingerprints, etc. since our original application will expire as of October 21, 2007. I am silently hoping that we won't have to go through this a third time.

Other than that, we have been going gangbusters on the condo - so I will have some updates on that later. As for the rest of the adoption stuff, we will just go back to sticking our heads in the sand.