........was to keep an online journal of my family's adoption journey to turn our happy, blessed family of 3, into a happy, blessed, & complete family of 4..........
we started paperwork for a China adoption, in August 2005, when p was only 8 months old..........i was a lunatic getting the paperwork done and sent to China to get our LID (the official date given to us by China that our paperwork/dossier is logged in in China)
So from start to finish, it took about 7 months to put together our dossier for China, meet with a social worker during numerous visits, write autobiographies about ourselves, go to doctor appointments and get letters from our doctors stating we were healthy and fit to be a parent, get background checks from our local police department, apply for and receive approval from Homeland Security to bring an orphan into the USA, etc. etc. etc. yada, yada, yada.........
Then all of these letters & documents needed to be notorized, state certified, and finally authenticated by the Chinese Embassy in Texas for Florida families..........
It was "paperchase central" in our house for many months, i had my own fed ex account number.......it was like i had my own company! hee hee!
So after all that work and months passed by, and p turning one year old, we finally received word from our adoption agency that our official log in date was 4/3/06. On the very same day our paperwork was logged in, in China, my sister was meeting her daughter at an orphanage in the Philippines--kind of cool, no?
So now 2 years, 7 months, and 6 days since our LID, we are getting to closer to having China assign a precious baby to our family. There is no way we thought we would be waiting this long, it has been hard and trying on my faith, but I am finally to a point where, I understand it's out of my hands, there is nothing I can do to control it, when she is ready for us, it will be time.............
pssst.......Lily we are SOOOO ready for you..........!!!
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