Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Did we just read the word "TRAVEL"??

Okay - it is starting to move along now!! Today we received the big email with all of the families listed in our TRAVEL GROUP!! Wow! We are all hoping for early to mid-September if all of the paperwork and appointments work out the way our agency hopes!! Wow! Wow! Wow!!

Monday, July 28, 2008

Good News!!!


Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land. Proverbs 25:25

We are so thrilled to announce that our LOA has arrived from China! We heard the news on Friday morning! The girls and I rushed to the store to have a cake decorated with "LOA" and then dashed off to let Kevin know at his work site. What a happy day it was! Then on Saturday we picked up the package from UPS sent by our adoption coordinator in Charleston! We signed the papers and sent them back immediately!

Today we filled out our visa applications and sent them on! Throughout this whole process, we have not wanted to be the ones to hold up progress!!

Now it is the wait for the "TA"... travel approval from China! That means we are approved to travel to China to bring home Mia! It will be a few days from the TA to secure the "CA" which means the American consulate appointment. After our appointment is made with the American consulate in Guangzhou, our agency will give us our travel dates. We are hoping from early September - but there will need to be some miracles to make that happen! Please pray with us for quick turnarounds on all of these papers!

Monday, July 21, 2008

False Labor at Day 125



So frustrating... thought the rumblings were labor but we are just VERY uncomfortable!! We are trying to keep enjoying summer... have spent quite a bit of time at the beach... have taken some day trips with friends... and even spent a day with our friend Tian. Here is a picture of her with our Emma!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

A Few Rumblings

Today we received a little communication in preparation for travel paperwork. Of course we filled out the papers quickly and sent them in to our agency. We still do not have our LOA - Day 120. This is about twice as long as we had anticipated waiting for this important paper from the CCAA in Beijing. We are hoping that this latest request for information means that our LOA will be here soon!

In the meantime, we are finishing Mia's room and putting together packing lists. It is looking more like post - Olympic travel for us! We are hoping that we fly in on the same planes that just took out the Olympians! A quick roundtrip turn-around!! I'm trying to put my mind around Mia preparations, getting our family ready for the school routine, and knowing that travel will come quickly after I start teaching again. But we'll see! We are not taking anything for granted at this point!