Our Journey to the East

My stomach has been doing flips since Friday. I can't sleep because every time I wake up there is something else that I need to remembe...

My, sweet, Jessa, you were right. How could I possibly keep this a secret! We are EXTREMELY excited to say that we have a referral! We loc...

Hello from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico! We are on a trip with my husband's company. Yesterday was the first day that I was able to check ema...

I was told yesterday that we do not have a LID yet. I kind of figured this. It has only been two weeks from today since we were DTC. So i...

I spoke with our Waiting Child coordinator yesterday about being out of the country next week when the Shared List should be coming out. Sh...

I have this on one of our other sites, but I have only received one quilt square so I thought that I would post it on my blog because I know...

After five months of paperwork we are finally Dossier to China (DTC). What a relief to get those papers where they belong. Please pray tha...

Yesterday I went and got my second Hep A/Hep B shot. Only one more to go, and I don't have to get that one until August. I did ok...I ...

I just talked with our agency and they said that they had received our Dossier. She said that she had already looked through it and it was ...

This afternoon I received our last Authentication in the mail. I just finished Express mailing our Dossier to our agency. We are DONE! They ...

So it appears that with this shared list comes new requirements. Apparently now in order for you to lock a child's file you need to hav...

Right now we are still waiting for our Authentication to come back, and I'm sure it will be here by the end of the week. But we are als...

Yesterday I express mailed our last document to the Chinese Embassy to be Authenticated. When we get that back next week I will send my Dos...

It is mid way through February and we are almost finished with all the paper work that is required to request a child from China. I can...

Sorry I am a little late at posting this, but our house has had the nasty flu going around. Donny is the only one of the six of us who has n...

I just found out that our I800A was approved on January 30th. That is 51 days! Not 120 days like we were originally told. My adoption agenc...

Well, yesterday my hubby finally went and got his first shot (Hep A/Hep B combo). He had been harrassing me about not getting mine "be...

Today I received our 12 documents in the mail Authenticated! So now they are done and ready to go to China. I am still waiting for our appro...

I just got back from getting my first Hep A/Hep B combination shot. I have to get one next month and then one five months after that. It w...

Xin Nian Kuai Le! That means Happy New Year in Mandarin. Today is Chinese New Year and this is the biggest holiday for China. They all g...