Moving Along

Things are moving along pretty steadily on the adoption front! Our home study was reviewed and approved by the agency and we have our official copies in hand!

Which means that I was able to send off two packages this week of paperwork, woohoo! One went to immigration, and that is the last piece of paperwork we'll need for the dossier (big packet of paperwork) to be sent to China. It is possible that this one piece of paperwork could take up to 3 months to get back to us, but we're hoping and praying it will be quicker. I've heard it has been taking around 3-4 weeks lately.

The other package was sent to our adoption agency and it was all of the rest of the paperwork to the dossier! If you're curious how much paperwork is required for the dossier, this is what I sent to be translated and ready for China:

My favorite part is the pictures of our family and house for our file:

The good news is, we are on our agency's family list for a match, so it could really be any time that we'll get a match with our child and have 2 weeks to accept! Oh, and almost immediately after I wrote my last update, our social worker got ahold of us and decided that since we're adopting a girl, there wouldn't be any real competition from our boys and the age range could be opened back up to 0-4 years old. So, still lots of question marks as far as age and when we will get a match and be able to travel and get her, but we are definitely trusting in God's timing and trying to be patient!

So for now, pretty much everything in our power is done, now we just wait on others to get things done. Still some work to be done as far as applying for adoption grants to help with some of the expenses though.

Thank you again for all of your prayers! We are all so excited to find out more about the little girl (crazy to say that!) that God is going to bring into our family!