wonderful news

I posted today on a yahoo website for families who have adopted from the same orphanage as Bree (there are only 19 members registered). We received an email back from a couple who adopted a son from there four years ago with club feet!! She sounds like she will be a wealth of information for us and a connection to Bree's only home she has known thus far. I cannot wait to hear back from her- now I will be checking my email hourly!

Pre-Approval is here!!

The girls called me at work to say they had signed onto the computer to play Webkinz and we had a message from CCAI. We received preapproval, which means the Chinese Adoption Affairs has recieved our letter of intent to adopt Bree and our file will now be moved onward! One step closer!

April 28th, 2008

They equate the waiting we are doing to pregnancy- I personally think its harder. At least with pregnancy, your child is with you always, feeling movements and gauging personality. Knowing that Bree is continents away and waiting for us is, at times, anguishing. PA (preapproval) is supposed to take a week to months (we are already at day 12) and then you recieve LOA (letter of approval). At this point our agency (CCAI- Chinese Children Adoption International) will begin obtaining a consulate appointment for us and then we can get travel approval.