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


Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Waiting for Josephine

Parenthood is amazing, and the way you bond with your children is nothing short of a miracle.  If you've never bonded to a picture of a child thousands of miles away, and immediately felt like you would walk through fire to get to her, I'm here to tell you it happens. Day by day, and week by week, and suddenly when you think of her your heart leaps....and you know you've become her mom.  Even though you've only met her picture.
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It's amazing how once you fall in love with that picture, your fears melt away.  I know she will be okay, and that we will be more than okay, we will be thrilled and blessed beyond belief to have the privilege of having not one perfect child in our family, but two!