The latest gossip I have heard the message boards is as follows. I do not know if it is true, but a few people on the boards have heard the same thing………so who knows when we will be going. Hopefully by March. Maybe because we were unable to make our appointment, we will get preferential treatment. Pray, cross your fingers and toes for us, etc., etc.

"Our facilitator was advised by staff at the NAC that the first two months of 2006 are going to be mostly filled with families who have had unsuccessful trips in the past few months. They are going to offer most of these families the chance to return in Jan and Feb and advised her that March would also be very busy but there may be a VERY few appointments issued in March for currently waiting families. We were told that most of the families who received "the letter" that your appointment letter would come in Dec-Jan will have appointments in April and beyond."

" On the upside we are also advised of many positive changes that will be implemented. One of the most impressive changes is that they will start scheduling fewer families each day so each family will have more time to find a child that matches them. Also the NAC has started to accept dossier's from Spain again which was initially one of the countries they had stopped accepting from."

Well it’s officially, official. We got the famous letter last night form the NAC that people have been getting since June 2005. The letter says that they are in receipt of our request for an appointment but they are all filled up for the 2005 year and we will be notified December 2005/January 2006 of our appointment. Know this is a standard letter that they never bother to change. We did not even ask for a 2005 appointment, we asked for January 15-30, 2006!! So now we sit and wait and wait. Enough to drive us nuts. So now we are praying for a January/February 2006 appointment and that the appointment letter comes quickly so we can plan ours lives. You know me..the planner. Also, we only have until January 26, 2005 to rebook our flight or we loose our money. The pressure is on.