Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We are well past one month into our wait. All of the paperwork, pencil pushing, FedExing, fingerprinting, and jumping through whatever hoops we were asked, seems easy compared to the waiting. At least when we were busy doing paperwork, we had no time to contemplate our thoughts, both fearful and joyous.

Unfortunately, what we thought was going to be a 6-8 month wait, looks like it could stretch into an 8-10 month wait, if not longer. There has been a great surge of dossiers submitted to China for adoption in the past months. Our adoption agency alone, submitted 645 dossiers to the CCAA in 2005. We are still confident, however, that 2006 will bring us the newest member of the Winemiller family.

We hope you had a very merry Christmas and we wish you a most blessed 2006.


Click here for an amazing tale of one family's adoption journey (although it documents a Kazakhstan adoption, there are many simularities to our own China adoption).

Log-In Date

We have our log-in date (LID)! We were notified yesterday that our completed and translated dossier was logged into the China Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA) on November 16, 2005. This date marks the "official" beginning of our referral wait period. Referrals are currently taking 6-8 months, so we are hoping to have ours by Angie's birthday on June 17th. That will be 7 months and one day past our LID and would make our travel dates early or mid August. What a wonderful birthday present for mom and a fantastic Father's Day present for dad!

Welcome!

Welcome to the Winemiller Red Thread blog! This journal will have the most current, up-to-the-minute information of where we are in the adoption process.

Our dossier is now in China being translated. We should have a log in date within a couple of weeks. However, we probably won't know what that date is until sometime close to Christmas.

Check back here soon for pictures of the nursery!