It's Referral Time!

First, I will start by apologizing that I never posted last months referrals. They arrived on Nov. 30 and went through 9/8/05, covering 14 days worth of LIDs. Between peparing for the holidays and feeling a little depressed from the wait, I just couldn't motivate myself to post.

Anyway, onto this month's referrals...

They arrived today, and the CCAA completed matching families with LID through 9/27/2005. This batch included 19 days! This is actually the largest number of days covered since Oct. 2005! I know... this sounds really exciting, but it's still a bit early to get our hopes up. September was a pretty small month and quite light on the dossiers, so I don't want to get too excited yet. For the past 15 months, the CCAA has been averaging about 13 days per referral batch. At that rate (which I'm really hoping speeds up because 1 day could mean another month of waiting), we are expecting to get our referral in March 2008. I'm actually a little more hopeful that we actually will receive our referral in Jan, but time will tell. We're still a little too far out to accurately predict.

So... what to expect in the upcoming months? Sept. 29, 2005 was a pretty big day. I'm pretty confident that will be included with the next referral batch, but how many other days will be included? Well, the CCAA was off for the first week of October last year. So no LIDs from Oct. 1-7, and a few of the days following are pretty light as well. I'm really hoping (and it's a long shot) that they get to at least the middle of October. So everyone keep your fingers crossed. The remainder of October and November are both pretty mammoth months, so no telling what will happen. I'm hoping it stays consistent (or speeds up), but I'm bracing for the realization that less days will be covered. I guess time will tell. Brace yourselves for the great wait of 2007!