Family 2014
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
LID!!!!!!
I am in shock!!!! Our agency said that it could take 4-6 weeks to get a log in date from China. Our log in date is 5/18/11!!!!!! Today!! China contacted our agency the day they logged us in!!! Now we can be considered for the May group of referrals!!!!
Friday, May 13, 2011
Lucky 13
This is something a friend gave me in July 2010. We had just found out that we were logged in with Nepal and we were number 13. I think that was the day I dropped my guard and really allowed myself to start believing that we were really adopting from Nepal. When things fell apart with Nepal, I wanted to throw this away, but I hid it away with the other paperwork for Nepal.
When I started to realize that we might be DTC on May 13th, I remembered this card. I haven't looked at this since everything with Nepal fell apart. How amazing that today I can pull it back out again! It was so special when I first got it. It felt so good to have someone acknowledge that there was alittle girl out there waiting for me. Thanks Tonya! This card is still apart of this journey. It is time to celebrate!!!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
It's Done!!!
I just finished mounting my photos and copying my passport pages. I used some of the same photos that I sent to Nepal, but I couldn't use the ones that had our dog in the picture or the ones where we didn't have shoes on in the house. Crazy! I am not going to try to figure it out. I just took some more pictures today. I have checked every document off the list. I have everything!!
Yesterday I went back to Chicago to pick up my authenticated documents. Seriously! Alot of money for a sticker on the back of each document. I showed someone my expensive sticker and they said that they always thought their creative memories stickers were expensive. So next time you go to purchase your scrapbooking stickers, you cant tell yourself that it is way cheaper than authentication stickers. So buy them without guilt. :)
Here is a picture of my husband and I after I had the documents safely back in my hands.
After the mess up when I went to get the documents certified I got a little nervous that there would be a problem with the authentication. What a relief to see everything complete. It was much busier than last week. The line for the pick up window was the longest I had seen it. I was afraid we wouldn't get to the window before they closed for lunch, but we were out of the building by 11:50. I was so thankful, but sad because it would have been perfect timing to meet up with a blog friend for the first time, but she was very sick and not able to meet me. There was nothing she could do about it. I really wanted to celebrate with her. I knew she would completely understand what I was feeling. Hopefully later this summer we can meet. Hope you are feeling better my fellow blogger.
We walked abound Chicago until dinner time when we were able to connect with two very special people. I may not have been able to adopt a little girl from Nepal, but I do have an adopted daughter and son-in-law. Soney and Shankar took us out to eat at the Curry House where we first met Soney almost two years ago. We had a wonderful time! Here are some pictures of us.
So now I will FedEx it tomorrow to my agency and wait. I will stop saying when I will be DTC. I am nervous that I will need to do something else before it can be mailed to China. But I will celebrate this next step. I am surprised that someone hasn't made up letters for the letter game when your dossier is mailed to agency. (maybe there is and I don't know about it) So tomorrow will I be MTA? :)
Yesterday I went back to Chicago to pick up my authenticated documents. Seriously! Alot of money for a sticker on the back of each document. I showed someone my expensive sticker and they said that they always thought their creative memories stickers were expensive. So next time you go to purchase your scrapbooking stickers, you cant tell yourself that it is way cheaper than authentication stickers. So buy them without guilt. :)
Here is a picture of my husband and I after I had the documents safely back in my hands.
After the mess up when I went to get the documents certified I got a little nervous that there would be a problem with the authentication. What a relief to see everything complete. It was much busier than last week. The line for the pick up window was the longest I had seen it. I was afraid we wouldn't get to the window before they closed for lunch, but we were out of the building by 11:50. I was so thankful, but sad because it would have been perfect timing to meet up with a blog friend for the first time, but she was very sick and not able to meet me. There was nothing she could do about it. I really wanted to celebrate with her. I knew she would completely understand what I was feeling. Hopefully later this summer we can meet. Hope you are feeling better my fellow blogger.
We walked abound Chicago until dinner time when we were able to connect with two very special people. I may not have been able to adopt a little girl from Nepal, but I do have an adopted daughter and son-in-law. Soney and Shankar took us out to eat at the Curry House where we first met Soney almost two years ago. We had a wonderful time! Here are some pictures of us.
So now I will FedEx it tomorrow to my agency and wait. I will stop saying when I will be DTC. I am nervous that I will need to do something else before it can be mailed to China. But I will celebrate this next step. I am surprised that someone hasn't made up letters for the letter game when your dossier is mailed to agency. (maybe there is and I don't know about it) So tomorrow will I be MTA? :)
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