Wow has it been a long two months. So much has went on. We were moving fast down the adoption road looking at children then so much changed. I went to the doctor for a something minor which turned out to be something not minor at all. Without boring you it lead to about 50 test. It put adoption right out of our minds. I threw away every paper I had. I cleared away my adoption table. Well, months ago there was this beautiful little girl that I fell in love with from moment 1. I called about her and was put on "the list", way down at the bottom. I called and called. She was with family after family. Then out of the blue one morning I got an email that said, Dear Jeremy and Jamie : here is Jaci's medical file that you have been waiting for. No, not now. The timing is horrible. I can't take it. We were waiting for results to see if I had liver cancer. And, we had to tell them in 3 days if we wanted her. So, we had to turn her down. I was heartbroken. The following week my results came back in and I was fine. We called the agency and Jaci was with another family. We had to wait for them to decide and they didn't take her, so we put in our papers and now we have a lock on her. YEAH!!! so we are filling out the paper work trying to get our waiver from China. After all that China could still turn us down because of my seizures. But, we don't accept that . She is meant to be ours. I have known it all along. Sorry this is so long.

Nothing really has happened the last week. I am trying to be productive and keep my mind busy. Trying not to check my email every 5 minutes. I belong to a wonderful advocacy blog. As I read all the articles I wonder if we will ever be at some of the places these couples are at, Jeremy assures me we will. I had a nice conversation with the lady who runs the blog and she told me she had only heard of one couple who didn't get their waiver and it was under very different circumstances, so that made me feel better.  I am being productive and trying to get all of our paperwork we will need for our dossier and home-study, calling and getting birth certificates and marriage licence. We went and had our pictures done for the passports and will get those off soon. So, that's all that has happened this week.

Important Dates...

2/13/2012-Application, MCC, and Family Information Sheet received at CCAI. In the meantime we saw our beautiful girls pics on another agency's page and tried so hard for months to view her file.

05/02/2012 Changed agencies to ASIA

05/02/2012 submitted LOI (letter of intent)

05/09/2012 received PA

06/21/2012 finish home study and submitted to court

09/10/2012 sent off I-800a

09/13/2012 I-800a accepted

09/26/2012 fingerprinted

10/10/2012 I-800a approval

10/22/2012 DTC!!!

11/01/2012 LID

01/02/2013 LOA (62 days)
01/21/2013 I-800 approval
01/29/2013 GUZ approval and cabled to Guangzhou
02/20/2012 Article 5 Pickup
03/22/2013 Travel Approval!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The new journey in our life..........

Welcome to the newest part in our family's life. For a while now Jeremy and I have thrown around the idea of adopting a girl from China but have never seriously, seriously, talked about it for certain reasons. Now, we feel the time is right and we couldn't be more happy. We are having to do our paperwork a bit different than most. If they approve our family then we will start the home study, the dossier and so on. The application, MCC and Family Information sheet was received on 2/13/2012. Now we just have to wait on our adoption agency to match us with beautiful baby girl Lai.