Update on China

I recently got a few questions about our China adoption, so I thought I'd update our status. It's been 2 years, 4 months+ since we started the whole process. We have a log-in date of 7/2/07. At that point, the backlog was about 595 days. Since then, the backlog (with regard to getting to us) has gotten down to 469 days. They are referring about 4.2 days per month. According to some calculations, at this rate we can expect a referral in 2017. By then, E will be 14 and M will be 12. I have no clue where we'll be in life at that point, whether we'll want an infant (as we originally requested), etc. Our options are to just wait it out and see how long this actually takes, switch our request to a special needs child, or drop out of China altogether. There's no charge for waiting, so I suppose we'll stay in line and see how long it takes to inch forward and go from there. If things speed up, I'll give more frequent updates; otherwise, once a year should probably do it. Sigh.