Day 85

Today is day 85 and we still do not have our LOA. This whole process is kicking my butt. I am moody and crabby alot, well, alot more than usual. We might have some kind of, sorta good news. Still not sure how to take it. We received an email from the agency yesterday saying that our cordinator had been checking and that our LOA "should" be issued this week and that the agency "should" have it next week. Kind of sounds like good news right? To me, not so much. You see, we "should" have been able to have our HS done in 6 months. Things took longer. Our dossier "should" have been logged in in January, after all we were DTC Jan. 18. The courier "should" have delivered our dossier before CNY. See where I am going with this? So I don't know how solid the info from the agency is. Were they told this or are they guessing? So I asked and got some response that didn't really sway me either way. The shoulds are making me uncomfortable. Please let us get our LOA next week. I really can't take this wait too much longer. Even more importantly, there is a child spending another night in an orphanage, all the while there is a family that would get on a plane today to bring her home. Very sad.
 On a happier note, an incredibly sweet lady is in Chin@ this week picking up her daughter who was in the same orphanage as Ella. We are so grateful to her for taking time to find our girl and get us some pics and video. That was huge for us. We have not had an updated picture on her since December. Thank you soooo much Amanda! That was priceless. I will ask her if I can share the video on our blog.
 Well, hopefully the weekend will go by fast. I will be busy shopping and having a BBQ for Mother's Day, so hopefully next week will be here quick and will come with some great news. hopefully.