Wooohooo!!! Here is the latest update on where we are with China:
CCAA Document Processing
The CCAA has finished the review of the adoption application documents registered with our office before November 31, 2006.
The CCAA has finished the placement of children for the families whose adoption application documents were registered with our office before December 27, 2005.
Retrieved from China Centre of Adoption Affairs: February 14, 2007
What does this mean? Well, for us it means that our dossier has moved from "no-man's land" into the review room where they will be going over everything and making sure that we meet all the requirements. I know, it seems like an extra step that would have already been done before our dossier was sent. But we play by the rules and hope for the best. After all it is our priviledge to b able to adopt from China.
And to add to this positive update, our homestudy update is complete and we have been added to te domestic registry. And THIS means that we will have to be prepared for the possibility of getting a phone call at any moment. I guess we'll be looking for a crib and car seat sooner rather than later. HOLY CRAP!!
Friday, February 15, 2008
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Monday, February 04, 2008
Parallel Journeys
If you know me well, you will know that I am constantly thinking steps ahead of things. So this might not come as a surprise to some of you. Why not one, when we could have two?
Now, there are no guarantees going this route. Essentially we are waiting for someone to pick us. To trust that we will do right by their child. We could be waiting for years for this to happen. But the flip side is that it could happen at any moment. Darren teases me that we will get the phone call on the same day as Ironman Canada. I say, bring it!
So we spent this weekend going through all our photos, trying to narrow down the selection to represent us, our lives, our families and friends. Not an easy task when you have to keep it to two pages. And we have been working on our "Dear Birthmother" letter. THAT, is the most important resume that I will ever write! There is so much that we want to say, but it can only be one page in length. And we want to make sure that it is received as honest and sincere. I guess if I had tears streaming down my face while trying to put thoughts into words makes it pretty sincere.
And here we are. Another journey. Another new adventure. How freakin' exciting is that? Our little Teia, our precious one waiting for us. She may come home to meet her sibling. Or she may be the older one, the one that will have the responsibility of picking on her brother or sister!
Our dream of having little Teia home gets closer every day, but it will be a long journey yet. And what little girl wouldn't love a sibling? (Actually, no one asked me that before my brother came on the scene, but I Iove him like crazy...now!) Yup, we are going to try to make that happen. How? Well...we are putting our hearts out there in the land of domestic adoption in the hopes that a birthmother might find it in her heart to share the most amazing gift anyone could ever give to us. A child.
Now, there are no guarantees going this route. Essentially we are waiting for someone to pick us. To trust that we will do right by their child. We could be waiting for years for this to happen. But the flip side is that it could happen at any moment. Darren teases me that we will get the phone call on the same day as Ironman Canada. I say, bring it!
So we spent this weekend going through all our photos, trying to narrow down the selection to represent us, our lives, our families and friends. Not an easy task when you have to keep it to two pages. And we have been working on our "Dear Birthmother" letter. THAT, is the most important resume that I will ever write! There is so much that we want to say, but it can only be one page in length. And we want to make sure that it is received as honest and sincere. I guess if I had tears streaming down my face while trying to put thoughts into words makes it pretty sincere.
And here we are. Another journey. Another new adventure. How freakin' exciting is that? Our little Teia, our precious one waiting for us. She may come home to meet her sibling. Or she may be the older one, the one that will have the responsibility of picking on her brother or sister!
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