Stats

I thought I might briefly explain some of the aspects of our adoption journey. We started this process back in Oct 2007 and our paperchasing took a little longer than anticipated, so our dossier wasn't officially logged in until 7/4/08 - this is our log in date or LID.

I should also mention that we originally started out in the "regular" program for China, but as the wait times kept getting longer and longer, we began to look at other options. So earlier this year we decided to switch to China's "waiting child" program, which means we opened our hearts to adopt a child with a health condition. So we gave our agency a checklist of what our family can easily manage and then they found us our beautiful girl based on that criteria. We couldn't be happier the way it all turned out.

So, back to the stats. We submitted our Letter of Intent (LOI) for this child on 6/5/09 and we received Preliminary Approval (PA) on 6/12/09. We are now waiting for our official Letter of Approval (LOA), which we've been warned could take two to three months to get. Then after the LOA we wait for Travel Approval (TA) and then we can go get our sweet girl.

The waiting is hard. I thought the wait was hard before, but now that we know who our child is, the waiting is so hard.