No news is good news?

That phrase came up at dinner today, and we had a discussion about it. When you're waiting to adopt, no news is NOT good news. Then again, maybe it's not bad news, either.

The November consejo came and went with no news from Peru. We have not received confirmation that the documents we submitted last month were satisfactory. We hope the lack of further questions means the committees were satisfied. On the other hand, it's hard to understand why, if the documents were acceptable, they didn't go ahead and assign the children.

Maybe the next consejo (assignment day) will be in just a couple of weeks, since they probably won't want it to be too close to Christmas. Villa Hope has a few families just waiting at this point.

I was able to rearrange my teaching schedule a bit to create some room on either side of Spring Break. So long as we get the referral in December or January, we should be able to travel in mid-March. I appreciate the cooperation of my department and students. The March date would also be after Chrissy's class has finished their standardized testing for the year.