Monday September 27, 2010

Well what a day!  There is a rumor going around that some agencies are going to be receiving some referrals with the dossier dates through May 18, 2006.  As you know, our log in date for our dossier is May 18, 2006!  The rumor is from a reliable source so as you can guess, we are sitting on pins and needles hoping and praying that the rumor is true, but only time will tell!

Sunday Sam humored me by going to Toys R Us and looking at everything.  I am obsessed with bath toys and they only thing that caught his eye was a monitor.  He admitted to being pretty oblivious as what we need.  He has been telling the stories his staff has been telling him about the diapers that have poo all the way up the back and down the leg.  He is having a hard time imagining that can even happen.  Boy is he in for a shock! 

I have tried to "break him in" on diapers with our niece Abby, but he says he'll wait for Tia.  It's a good thing I'll be around when he does his first one, but I would love to have a nanny cam on him when he gets a messy diaper when I'm not around!  I'm know I'm terrible or maybe even evil!!

We are getting SO EXCITED!!  After years of waiting and dreaming of the moment, I have all these ideas of how to tell family and friends.  Sam tells me that he has his work cut out to keep me grounded!  I must say, he certainly does!!

I am currently reading "From China With Love, A Long Road to Motherhood" by Emily Buchanan.  I'm at the part where she has just received her daughter.  She's talking about all the fears that she had about maybe her baby not liking her or she not liking her baby; what if she can't do this; what if her daughter won't bond/attach.  As she goes on talking about these feelings, she realized that she is already completely in love with her daughter and that this is what she's been waiting for.  It dawns on me that even though I feel like I'm alone, I'm really not.

As my mom and sisters tell me, I do have experience with my nephews and nieces.  But as I often point out, I can send them home when I'm done.  This will not be the case.  The only thing that truly terrifies me is the flight there and home.  Granted on the plane from China will be full of other families heading home too so if our daughter cries for a long period of time, the passengers won't care as they are in the same boat.  However, the legs of the US flights are a little different.  But I here I am putting the stroller before the baby!  OK so that wasn't very funny....

I do have to say as the wait has gone on and one, we put our faith in God.  Telling ourselves that He has a plan and we will come to understand it when it's time.  Well, I do have to say NOW I understand His plan!  Sam and I are feeling very calm and reassured of what lies a head of us

Of course I do have to give a shout out to our families, friend and co-workers for the prayer and support - especially my bosses!  Especially now that we SO close to the end!!

Friday September 17, 2010

Well we've been told by 3 different Holt representatives that they are "pretty confident" that we will be getting our match/referral sometime in October 2010 and (most likely) travel to China in January 2011.  We are getting very excited!!  We're like kids right before Christmas!!  Sam is really getting what I call the "daddy gene!"  He comes home from work and tells me all about the cute little baby girls he saw in his store or printed pictures of that day! 

2011 will be a HUGE year for us!! We will be going to China as honeymooners (we never had one) and coming home with a baby!!  We will celebrate our first mothers day and fathers day, our 10th wedding anniversary and baby's 1st Christmas!! 

God had a plan for us and even though we didn't understand it at first, it's all coming together now!! 

September 12, 2010

This is the first time ever that I have ever created a blog. I have only visited one other blog so I am VERY new to this process.




Where to begin? I have no idea. Well I'll just "dive in" with it. Yesterday Sam and I received in the mail our 4th and final approval of the I-600A. This form allows us to adopt our baby from China. We were very excited about this as our previous I-600A was due to expire on 9/30/10 and we VERY close to getting our referral or match from China.
When we started this process in October 2005 the wait was only about 8 months long. However when our paper work was logged into China on May 18, 2006 the wait time had steadily increased and has from that point on.

After years of no movement we FINALLY seeing some movement.  The last e-mail match update for the standard program had matched families with dossier logged into China throuh May 15, 2006.   Our LID (log in date) is May 18, 2006 - THREE DAYS DIFFERENCE!! 

Finally!!  We are now seeing the light at the end of the tunnel!  After years and years of wondering if this were ever going to happen we can now begin to dream the dreams that new parents have!