Another Great Fundraiser

While we wait I want to remind you all of our Puzzle Fundraiser. We haven't had much movement on it but I have 2 beautiful puzzles with Chinese scenery on them. Please consider donating $5 for a piece of our adoption puzzle. I will put your name on the back, the puzzles will be put together and framed in our Little Miss's  bedroom. Please see the DONATE button at the top right corner of the blog.

Also, today I have a Tupperware fundraiser beginning. A wonderful fellow adoptive mom sells tupperware and hosts these parties as fundraisers to help bring kids home to their forever families. Please consider buying a great product and adding to our China plane trip fund. See the link below!

A China Princess Finds Her Family Fundraiser!

http://order.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/!twx$eparty_ctl.p_guest_welcome?pv_eparty=2218dc88d9b995ae3fd10329345088a2

Thank you all again for your continued support and prayers! Still waiting on our Letter of Approval but with your prayers, it just might come soon!

More Waiting

Well, we have finally made it to summer. I am so happy that school is over. It was such a crazy, hectic school year, I can use the much needed rest and relaxation. The only trouble...too much time to think.

It is now June 27. We have had our paperwork into China for over a month now. It has been logged in (LID of 5/21) and we have been translated (OOT sometime the week of 6/9) so now we just wait. I have seen many with LID dates of mid-April now getting their letters of approval (LOA). I can only see this as a good sign. That means May LIDs would be next. Let's get that LOA!

So we wait, and we wait, and we wait. This is hard. It is so similar to when we had to wait between trips to go back for Colby. We first met him in late June 2008. We had 2 "play dates" and then had to leave him. We had no idea when we would be back. With the judge requesting updated paperwork, and a couple holidays thrown in, it wasn't until the very end of Jan 2009 that we returned. 7 months of waiting with only a few photos and a short video to look at.

And now, I have the same. A few photos and a short video to keep me company. We have a little better idea of when we might go, still praying for late Sept but more likely October travel. We just need that silly LOA paper. With that I know it will be about 8-10 weeks to travel.

So, what can we do? Pray for a quick LOA. Pray that someone in China gets through a big batch of adoption paperwork to approve a bunch of LOAs. Pray that our little girl stays healthy and that the ladies taking care of her love her. Pray that we survive this crazy wait as we get two federal governments to agree that our China Princess can come home. Just pray!

A Little Owl Told Me We Are 'OOT

The owl said we are 'OOT!!!

I know, sounds silly but it is another big step forward. 

Once our dossier was sent to China, it needed to be logged in first. Se we were DTC on 5/9 (arrived in China 5/12) and LID, logged in date of 5/21. I have many friends on the various Facebook adoption groups who have similar dates as we do. It is fun knowing that we might meet up in China as we travel to get our little ones. Well, we all post our "stats" and watch each other's. The other dossiers were moving on to be OOT, or Out of Translation. A big step. So, on Thursday, needing some good news, I emailed our placement agency just to see how things were going. Marilyn emailed back to say that the listings show that we are OOT also!!! So excited! 

What's next?? Our dossier needs to be reviewed and we will receive our LOA, Letter of Approval. A bit of a long dragged out process but we are moving along. Some have waited 30 days for LOA, some have waited for 100 days or more. We have no way to know how long we will wait. So please, keep praying that we move along quickly and bring home our Little China Princess soon.