Picture Perfect (Almost)

For two years, I've been trying to get my act together to submit a picture for our local FCC calendar. It's a great calendar featuring Chinese adoptees from all over the world, and last year its sales let our FCC board send oodles of money back to China to help the children still there. It's an amazing thing, and certainly a cause near and dear to my heart.

Until this year, we've been relegated to a spot in the group photo on the back cover because I've never been organized enough to get a photo taken in time. This year, I swore it'd be different. So we scheduled the pix last weekend, only to have Whos I & II wake up with snot all over their faces. Ewww. Green boogies aren't really what I want to see in a beautiful calendar. So we canceled and decided to try again today. Folks, I think we have a winner! Only thing missing from the picture is .... Baby Sister. By now, you've probably figured out it was not the Stork flying in that DHL package, but a Do-Do bird. And now we hear there's no guarantee the stork will fly our way with this next batch of referrals.

Why the uncertainty? We have an LID that's irrelevant because we went on hold for several months (more on that later). And now that we're back in the game, all CCAA will tell our agency is that we're in the matching room. But it's a great mystery as to which group we're with. We could get a phone call next week or next year. Only the CCAA knows, and they're not talking.

Note to CCAA: A little suspense goes a lonnnnnng way in our house. How 'bout a hint? Just a teeny one?