This post is for catching up with where we have been. Back in February when I stopped posting to this blog, I just had nothing to report on the adoption front. There was no news coming from anywhere. We received a letter from our agency giving us different options of moving forward with an adoption plan since we did not know if Nepal would work out. One option was looking at children on the China special needs list without having to pay any fees up front. This sounded like a great option to us. Then I heard from a new friend in the adoption world that she had just met with our agency about the program and she called me to tell me she thought it would be a great option for us.
So we made an appointment to meet with Jill on March 25th. We met with her and filled in our needs list then and there. We were open to a variety of needs so we were excited to hear that the whole process could take anywhere from 6-8 months. We did not have to do the paperwork for the dossier, but we chose to move forward with it if it would help us get a child sooner. I went into the agency many times over the last three months to look at the special needs list. We went through some challenging situations, some sad ones, and all in all it was pretty emotional, but I knew we were getting close so that helped keep what we were going through in perspective.
Our dossier went to China on July 1st. We were told that China received our dossier on July 5th. We have yet to get a log in date (LID). Then on July 13th I was on a website looking to find out how long it should take to get our LID and found a post about an adorable two year old. Of course I got sucked in and had to look at who this boy was. When I saw his picture I fell in love.
Shaanxi Time
1 year ago