No TA

Well our hopes of getting our travel approval (TA) before the CCAA closed for Chinese New Year dissolved today as our agency did not receive any TA's. Unfortunately this delay puts us back several weeks from picking up Maeve. Now the earliest we could get the TA would be 2/5 and then hope to travel on 2/25. This is a stretch though and we most likely won't even get our TA until the 2nd week of Feb. This is so dissappointing!! We just don't understand why it takes so long and why we can never get information beyond "hopefully it will come next week." We have been staring at Maeve's pictures since October and never envisioned it would take 5 months until we picked her up. Probably ignorance on our part, but we are still frustrated!! I know once she is home it will be fine, but getting to that point is excrutiating.