Our Journey to the East

No updates.  We are just in "wait mode" for the next couple of months.  If we can get our LOA (letter of acceptance) by my birthda...

I just received an update on Makinley.  Yes, we are doing the Snoopy dance here!! Let me start out by saying that Makinley is a year and a...

Tomorrow our Dossier will be on its way to China!! Our (BIG) part is finally done.  Now we wait on China and the US to finish the process....

I just received word that my authentication papers are heading back to me today.  Woo Hoo!!!  That means that I will be sending my dossier t...

My friend, Heather, was at Makinley's orphanage last week and she was able to get some video of my Makinley! Thank you, Heather, for t...

I was pondering our travel to China to get our precious baby girl.  I really want her home before the end of the year, not in January!  I kn...

Tomorrow I will be sending off all of my documents for my dossier to be Authenticated.  It is the last step in the process of getting my pap...

I just received our approval for our I800A!!  It took 49 days for them to approve it.  On to the next step!!

Today is day 31 of waiting for my I800a.  The wait is running about 45-55 days right now.  That means that we are more than half way through...

Mother's Day was very nice at our house this year.  It is one of my favorite days of the year and I always look forward to it.  My amazi...

Today we were able to walk in and get our fingerprints done.  Thanks so much to all of you who let me know about this.  I was bummed that ou...

I just received notice today that our fingerprint appointment is scheduled for May 20th.  This is the next step in obtaining our I800a.  I w...

So we thought that the picture that we received yesterday was fabulous and then this morning I received this...... So happy that others ...

We have a sleeping angel sent straight from Heaven! And she sucks her thumb!! I was given this picture by a friend of mine who just trave...

On Tuesday I resent both of my packages.  Funny how paranoid I was that I was missing or forgetting something!  I think I checked and rechec...

Saturday the mailman arrived with a package for me.  "Wow," I thought, "that was fast!"  I should have known better.  An...

Today, my baby girl is two years and two months old.  She is waiting for us in an orphanage half a world away (literally).  My heart so long...

I was just notified that our agency has approved our Homestudy!  After I get a copy in-hand this week, I will be mailing it off to USCIS w...

Back in January, my husband and I were having a conversation about our family's future and where we thought we were going.  We knew that...

Makinley is in Zhongshan, Guangdong. The province right to the left of hers  is where Ashlyn was born. Guangdong is where the American Co...