Monday, February 26, 2007

Celebrate


We celebrated the day by going to our local Tallahassee Family With Asian Children's (TFWAC) Chinese New Year party hosted at a local Chinese restaurant. Madeline and her best friend Annalee had a great time celebrating and talking about their new baby sisters. We were relieved and kicked backed and could finally say were done. I ate more Chinese food that night. It seems we always celebrate with Chinese food. Like we will not have enough when we go to China.

Friday, February 23, 2007

DTC 2/22/2007

The news we have finally been waiting for our paperchase is over and now the roller coaster wait begins. Wow what a reflief :)

CONGRATULATIONS, Steven & Sheri,

Here’s the news you’ve long been waiting for—your dossier was sent to China late yesterday afternoon (2/22/2007)! J

Here’s what to expect for the next month:

The CCAA will receive your dossier in approximately 3-5 days. Our China Department will contact you by email once your dossier has been received by our representatives in China and hand-delivered to the CCAA.

The CCAA usually logs in dossiers within 4 weeks of their receipt. This Log-In Date is called your LID, the date that you may “count down” to your referral. As the CCAA is the ultimate authority in logging in your dossier, we are unable to estimate your LID. The CCAA should notify us of your LID within the next 8 weeks. We will e-mail you as soon as we have confirmation of your LID and will then give you instructions on how to download your LID Packet. Your LID will also be posted on your personal online Parent Access Network (PAN) page of the CCAI website, www.chinesechildren.org, the instant we are notified of it.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Dossier Update

Spoke to Kat this morning and she has our documents and she is so impressed how fast we finished the process. We started our homestudy in December and now are waiting for our Dossier to go to China. I was so excited I told her. She hope to have our Dossier through critical review no later than Saturday 2/10/2007. I was extatic I figured a week. Kat said at the latest unless there are problems she will be FED EX'ing our Dossier to Colorado for translation Monday :)

I feel very confident now that we will make a LID of late Feb or early March. Chinese New Year in the week of February 18th and the CCAA office will be closed but when they return Kinsey Grace's paperwork will be there waiting for them.