I have been such a bad blogger!!!

As everyone will have noticed by now - it has been months since my last posting. I am a very bad blogger!

The reason why - well after much heartache and soul searching we have made the very difficult decision to switch countries.

With each month we watched sadly as the China allocations became smaller and smaller. Now a lot of people are living in optimism land - telling each other that things will speed up. But I am a bit of a realist and needed to take some control back in this very disempowering journey. I predict that for April 07 LID it will be at least another 4 years before allocation. Yes, there are people switching (like us) and that might speed things up a little. But there is also a reduction in the number of babies available and most recently I read that China is looking at ceasing it's one child policy which will impact on the wait times.

Anyway, Wally and I decided that we couldn't take the uncertainty of China (yes, I know that no adoption process is certain - but educated assumptions can be made).

So we embarked on switching countries. After much research and discussion we have chosen Thailand. We have requested a girl as we had all been picturing our lives with a sister/daughter and we couldn't bare to let it go. And because of our ages we have been informed that we will most likely be allocated a 2-3 year old.

So our little "Tiger" as we've nicknamed her will hopefully be with us sometime next year! Yes 2009! The current average wait time for Thailand is 14 months (but you can wait longer for a girl we've been told)

So now you know. I haven't wanted to post on this site because obviously it is called "Hearts in China" and I was feeling like I had betrayed our Chinese daughter. But I now realise that our daughter is waiting for us, we just weren't sure where and it turns out she is in Thailand.

I wonder if I can change the title of the blog??? Must have a little play and check it out.

Love and light.

Tina Marie