The waiting, the waiting, the waiting....

We took M1 to see Shrek the Musical a few weeks ago.  There is a fabulous song by Fiona where she is locked in the tower waiting for her Prince to come.  In one line she's screaming ( a little "off her rocker"), "the waiting, the waiting, the waiting....." it makes me laugh because I feel like that sometimes.  There is LOTS and LOTS of speculation about adoptions in China.  The latest speculation is that China won't do more than 3 or 4 days a month now.  We've all been hoping they would speed up once Chinese New Year was over, but it doesn't look like that will be the case.  They are to June 2, 2006 and our LID (log in date) is Sept. 19, 2006.  I'm going to be generous and estimate China doing 7 days from now on....it will take them 15 more months to get to us.  15 months would be fabulous because it could POSSIBLY mean that we could travel and get home before our last update expires.  However, if we see that they only do 3 or 4 days a month that doubles our time to 30 months (2 1/2 more years).  Another speculation is that China might be phasing out of healthy adoptions and pushing their special needs route.  That makes sense with the sloooooow down of the healthy wait, but the quick adoptions of special need children.  At this point, we still want to be on the healthy list.  I had mentioned before about the possibility of adopting 2 children with one set of paperwork, one of those being special needs.  We've decided not to head in that direction.  We've decided to head down this road of healthy adoption as long as the doors are open!  I just wonder how much longer that will be.