LOI Submitted

Things are moving for a change. We had our official referral or proposal and lo and behold my husband signed the papers. Sure, he had some more questions about the girl but he would not let it hold up the LOI, letter of intent to adopt the child. He was ready and willing to do what's necessary to bring our daughter home. I was too. We listened to the social worker do her presentation, show us her picture and video but all we wanted to do was sign the papers. We did, thank you Lord for this strength and faith. Only with his guidance and provisions were we able to come this far; to almost be done and be blessed with another daughter to make our family a family of six, three daughters and a son.

Let me tell you about watching the video or our precious nine year old daughter. It was incredible to see her animated and smiling. I just wanted to jump inside that video and hug her, squeeze her and hold her close to my heart. She was a good helper to her six year old friend, a little boy she could be particularly close to. Her leaving could potentially be hard on him. I hope he finds a family very soon. He looks like a wonderful little boy. Our social worker is going to ask, seeing our daughter is older, if she can write to us, communicate in some way with us as a part of her pre-adoption preparation. That sounds great to me and a great idea, if we could exchange letters or photos or whatever she wants to. She is at an orphanage in Jiangxi. So, when we travel we will go to Nanchang to meet her. I hope we will be able to go to the orphanage for a visit. That was one of the other questions we had. We will find out if any of it is possible or not hopefully sometimes this week.

Our agency said that our status for the LOI should change in a day or two to Assessing and then in a week or so to Accepted. Please, sweet Jesus, let it be that way. Let these next few steps go quickly. Also this week our LOI will be submitted to our Ministry as well so that both of the approvals may come in at the same time. So once CCCWA gives approval to the LOI they will check on our dossier and if that is approved as well then they will give us a PA - pre approval by sending us an LSC - letter seeking confirmation. We will sign the LSC and return to both of our Ministries and then ... and then at last the very last step, we wait on the TA - travel approval. We will finally get a date when we can travel to China to pick our precious daughter, finalize the adoption and bring her home with us where she belongs.