Countdown to Baby

Victoria, Austin and I have created a countdown calendar. Out came the scissors, glue, markers and rubber stamps. Victoria wrote out the months and they both decorated them with stamps. It's hanging where we can see it all the time and can cross off the days with x's.

Ok, here's how it works. There's a calendar for June, July, August and September 2005. We're counting down LID's (log in dates) until the CCAA (China Centre of Adoption Affairs) gets to ours, which is September 7, 2005. For example, in the month of May the CCAA sent out referrals for all the families who were logged in between June 7 -15, 2005. So those are the days we crossed off. Then just last week the CCAA sent out referrals for all those families who were logged in June 16 - 28, 2005 so those days were crossed off. It's usually near the end of the month when we hear from the CCAA about how many days worth of LID's they'll be sending referrals for. So we shall wait until the end of July to cross of some more days - hopefully a whole month's worth! (that's the rumour anyway.)