Our adoption just got updated to Matched Posted about over 8 years ago

We have received our LSC and submitted our final i800 paperwork.  We could be traveling in as soon as 8-10 weeks!  

November Updates Posted about over 8 years ago

The big news for November is that........our dossier when to China on the 21st and we are officially LID (logged in date) as of the 28th!  Now we wait, and we wait, and we wait some more.  This part of the waiting game is pretty unpredictable because our file has to go through translation, review, and then finally the officially match with Cora.  The average number of days that this next step i...

October Updates Posted about almost 9 years ago

October was a roller coaster for our dossier paperwork. We had our USCIS fingerprinting appointments and were fortunate enough to be approved the very next day! We were able to notarize our paperwork and get that immediately sent off. Unfortunately we had two documents that were rejected because the notary’s stamp didn’t match the state registery. Ironically those documents were our letters...

September Update Posted about almost 9 years ago

We made so many steps forward toward our baby girl last month! Our background checks finally came in so that our homestudy could be approved and our i800A paperwork submitted.  We are waiting now for our USCIS fingerprint appointments.  Other than the i800A approval paperwork and the pictures that still need to be emailed to WACAP, our dossier paperwork is all together and ready to start the Au...

August Update Posted about about 9 years ago

Since June we have reached 10% of our Pure Charity fundraising goal!  Words just can't express how blessed we feel and how much we appreciate everyone who is walking  this journey with us. So much has happened in just a few short months..we had our last set of interviews and home visit today.  Our social worker from Evolve is hoping to have a draft of our homestudy to us by the end of next week...

July Update Posted about about 9 years ago

It is so hard to believe that we just started this journey to "Cora" a little over a month ago. We have anxiously been watching the weather reports and tracking the Typhoon that is expected to hit the China coastline. While it doesn’t look like Cora’s orphanage will be impacted, we are continuing to keep the other orphanages in the area in our thoughts. In addition to working on the...

Orphanage Update Posted about about 9 years ago

It is hard to think of your child waiting for you in an orphanage half way across the world. We did learn though that children tend to be very well cared for in the orphanage in Liaocheng. In fact, in April a team of doctors and therapists traveled to the orphanage to train staff on how to work with the children on physical and occupational therapy exercises. That's a huge relief but doesn't ma...