Timeline


Apr-11 Homestudy began
Jul-11 Signed with Holt
6/28/11 Found Jospehine, but another family is
currently reviewing
7/13/11 Received information for Josephine
to review
07/20/11 Asked for additional information about
Josephine's development
08/20/11 Filed I800A
08/23/11 Received additional information from her
orphanage and asked to hold her for me
08/24/11 Josephine went off Great Walls list to Holt
08/26/11 Sent LOI (Letter of Intent)
9/2/11 LOI uploaded in china
9/7/11 Got fingerprinted
9/29/11 800A
10/14/11 DTC (Dossier to China)
10/18/2011 LID (Logged in Date)
12/14/2011 LOA!
02/03/2012 Article 5 Pickup
02/16/2012Travel Approval
03/13/2012 Travel to CHINA!!!!!
03/29/2012 Homecoming


Saturday, October 22, 2011

The name Josephine

A few weeks after I was given pre-approval for Josephine, I decided to contact Cori at Great Wall and ask her if she knew who assigned Song QianRu the name Josephine?   Cori wrote me back she had!  She said that she named her that after the character "Jo" in Little Women.  At the same time, she named another child Beth.  I was thrilled to be able to know this little part of history that helped bring Josephine to us.   I'm so thankful for Cori, for all the work she did on my behalf (asking for additional information from China, etc.) when I wasn't even a Great Wall client.

In the above picture, my mom, sister, and Madalyn all made a Mosaic of the first 4 letters of Josephine.  Madalyn and I will finish the rest of the letters, once a month, and hopefully she'll be home before we finish!

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