The last week has been difficult. Our agency, CCAI, told us that they had never had a family go past 4 weeks, and in fact we later found out that apparently no one has ever gotten past 27 days. For non-adopters, this may sound like no big deal. But when you know there have been over 10,000 adoptions with this agency before you, same government, same system, same rules, and the average wait for TA is normallyl 10-14 days the anguish starts to set in. "Are we losing the adoption? Has something happened here at the very, very end?"
I made myself wait past 4 weeks and finally called our agency, trying not to cry. "Do any families not ever get the TA? Do adoptions fall through at this point? Do we need to refile paperwork?" The rep was super kind. She told me that we had set a record for waiting and they were very sorry but it appeared to be due to the incredible changes happening at the CCWA as they switch from paper to electronic records. She said "I know this isn't much, but our reps in China think that there is a packet of TAs coming soon...and we hope yours in there!" Most of all she assured me that no one doesn't get a TA. That was so comforting. Even if the wait was long, if there is hope of completing the adoption at the end, we can endure, but as I was losing hope it was so hard to press on. I hung up full of hope and very encouraged. In fact, I stopped my obsessive 2 minute refreshing of my phone's email app that I had been doing for the past 3 weeks. I played and snuggled with my littlest who had woken early from his nap, and it wasn't till an hour or two later that I noted that there was a new email--WE HAD A TA!!! I stopped and had a cry and thanked God. Since then we have been madly working to find flights for 6 going and 8 coming. More about that later, we still don't have tickets...white knuckled suspense on this end. Oh! Yes, we got our confirmed CA Thursday AM and I will post those dates as soon as we have confirmed flights, God willing! Pray we get the flights today, please.
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