One year ago today, our dossier was being loged in by the CCAA. We have now officially waited one full year for our baby girl. Unofficially, we have waited more like 15 - 16 months from the time we started chasing paperwork all over the place. It seems like longer. Currently the referral wait time is about 14 or 15 months from the log-in date, so we are hoping for a February referral with travel in April (after tax day of course). Until then we continue to pass the time by staying busy, meeting with other families adopting from China once a month, and continuing to know that our baby girl will be here before we know it.Our fingerprints expire in December so we are going back to the United States Citizenship and Immigration office this Saturday to be re-fingerprinted for our FBI background checks. Just immagine the DMV times a thousand. Needless to say, we haven't planned anything else for that day.
Along with having to be re-fingerprinted, our form allowing us to adopt a foreign child expires in the spring and will have to be re-done as well. This means we will have another round of paperchasing to do and our homestudy will have to be updated by our social worker. Thankfully, we will not need to have everything certified by the state and authenticated by the Chinese Embassy, like we did the first time.
This Thanksgiving, we will be extra thankful for all of our family and friend's love and support they have provided over the past year (and more). Have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving and try not to eat too much!
Love,
Angie and Mike
